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Joan Stephenson, PhD

JAMA. 2004;292:323.

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The science of comparative genomics will take another leap forward with the sequencing of the DNA of a small kangaroo called the tammar wallaby. The Bethesda, Md–based National Human Genome Research Institute, in partnership with the Australian Genome Research Facility Ltd, in Melbourne, plans to begin sequencing the tammar wallaby's genome in 2004 and complete the project in about 2 years.

Researchers plan to sequence the genome of the tammar wallaby to gain insight into the workings of the human genome. (Photo credit: DIIRD, State of Victoria, Australia)

Analyses of the genomes of other organisms is expected to help scientists gain a better understanding of the workings of the human genome. (Information about the growing field of comparative genomic analysis is available at http://www.genome.gov/10005835.)

Scientists believe studying marsupials (animals that develop in an outside pouch) such as the tammar wallaby and the gray, short-tailed South . . . [Full Text of this Article]