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Old 07-25-2010, 08:03 AM   #558
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Genetics are way more complicated than you think. The Mars test may have shown your dog as pure yorkie although it is parti colour. Not sure how that works when the yorkie does not carry the pie bald gene to produce that pattern. Interesting isn't it?
So if the mix is dilute enough would Mars show a purebred? Dilute meaning the mix occured many generations ago but that gene to create the colour pattern is still carried forward....
The Mars testing was dicussed here last year... http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/bre...-accuracy.html

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