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Originally Posted by Furbaby Friend  Just to clarify, I remember reading in another thread, where an owner wanted to DNA test to see what their mix was made up of, that DNA testing in dogs is not reliable and not worth the money? Are these tests different and actually accurate? It would be really neat if science advanced and figured it out! |
Entirely different type of test. There are not genetic markers available for every breed...so if you have a dog with an un-known marker...the test wouldn't give you an accurate result. Plus the fact many of the strains of dna vary so slightly from breed to breed...the data is easily mis-read.
There are genetic markers for coat color and these are the markers the OP was interested in.
The only way to definitively know a dog/pup is carrier of a particular color....such as some ads say....would be to dna the dog for that specific gene and that was the OP's question.