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Pinehaven: Since no one has ever DNA'd the unpapered, terrier type dogs who were used to begin this breed, how can you say that the true yorkie doesn't carry the piebald gene? What makes a true yorkie true? God did not create the Yorkshire terrier, man did, by using countless numbers of dogs - dogs without pedigrees, or traceable heritage. These founding dogs had certain characteristics that their owners wanted to reproduce and improve on. I'm sure some people were more conscious about what they let their dogs breed to but I'm guessing that many of the founding dogs had the run of the land and "fell in love" with whom ever they wished.
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I'd like to elaborate a little bit more on this, and suggest that it is possible that not every yorkie was made up of the same mix of dogs.
One guy mixed a few dogs together and got a smaller dog, another guy did the same thing but with different dogs. Eventually they started breeding their dogs together and producing the yorkie breed. So it is possible that not every original line had the same makeup of dogs.