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Originally Posted by sierrapups  I am glad that you trust your breeder. Do you know how far back they could go on testing the lines? Is it true that the AKC does not require that both parents be DNA tested?
With BTRA registry both parents are required to be DNA tested in order to register the litters.
Funny about what you say that Mars says since the BTCA submitted only one AKC registered yorkie to be tested, it came back as a purebred yorkie in the yorkie cluster and not amongst the Biewers. Hmmmmm |
This is copied and pasted directly from the Mars veterinary Website.
Why can't this test detect purebreds? Is Mars Veterinary worried about lawsuits?
The WISDOM Panel™ MX test was designed to determine the breed makeup of mixed-breed dogs. Its development involved the analyses of more than 19 million DNA markers from more than 13,000 purebred and mixed-breed dogs to best tell breeds in a mixed-breed dog apart.
In order to determine if a dog is a purebred, Mars Veterinary would ideally need DNA samples that cover all family lines for each breed of purebred dog. But since their focus was the development of a test capable of accurately determining the breeds in a mixed-breed dog, they did not focus on collecting such a catalogue of purebred dog DNA samples.