Butit turns out that about 80 percent ofthegenes known to causediseasesinhumans have counterparts in the genome of Xenopus tropicalis-the western clawedfrognative to sub-Saharan Africa.
Another drug, from the African clawedfrog, from GlaxoSmithkline and a small biotech company was rejected in 1999 by the FDA as a treatment for diabetic foot ulcers.