"If you grew up in a poorer neighborhood, you'd be more aware of someone coming up behind you and stealing your bag," Mr. Ostrander said.

如果你成长于一个贫穷的街区，你就会更容易意识到有人跟着你试图偷你的包。“奥斯特兰德先生说。”

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Dr Ostrander has already used dogs to track down the genes behind certain cancers that the species shares with people, and to work out the dog family tree.

奥斯瑞德博士已经通过对狗的研究发现了基因背后与人共通的特定癌症因素，并构建出狗的族谱。

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Ostrander said. "If we can decipher the genetic basis for a complex trait such as the dog's coat, we believe that we can do it as well with complex diseases."

Ostrander博士说，“如果我们能够破译象狗的毛发一样具有复杂特征的遗传密码，那么我们同样能够破译在复杂疾病中起作用的遗传密码。”

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"Most dog breeds have really only been around since Victorian times, " said Elaine Ostrander of the National Human Genome Research Institute's Dog Genome Project.

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