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Originally Posted by Teresiana  I just took a look at my test for Momoko. When I adopted her, I was told that she she was an F1 Morkie. However, when I had the test done, I didn't specify between the purebred/mixed breed/designer dog. I just wanted to see what results would come back. Anyway, here's a link to Momo's test...it will give you a vague idea of how Mars interprets the data: http://goo.gl/6UHDx |
Wow, MARS went above and beyond the call of duty and gave you a free Designer Dog analysis!
The Principle Component Analysis (PCA) is the heart of the analysis. That's the two pages of graphs with the clusters of dots, each one color coded to represent a particular breed of dog, or the F1 (first generation) cross between a Maltese and Yorkie (Morkie). Momo falls exactly in the center of the cluster for the Morkies in both analyses. They left out the graph of the homozygosity profile for Momo, but gave a verbal description of the results--that Momo has the expected homozygosity/heterozygosity of an F1 Morkie, in other words, that Momo is the result of a cross between a Maltese and a Yorkie, and not the result of a cross between two Morkies. Now I REALLY want to see the results for Minnie, because I'm thinking that maybe they did a free test of breed purity on her DNA once they realized she only had Yorkie DNA in her.