A research team led by cardiologist Joshua Stern at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine has discovered a gene mutation in Newfoundland dogs responsible for the often deadly disease subvalvular aortic stenosis, or SAS. Read about the story at http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10979.
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