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LOL LOL
Now I remember that thread. Not so much you had her tested - but hey why not?
I find it interesting that genetic overlap is there nothing around DNA markers or RNA or some such thing that might help differentiate different dog breeds? I think I heard somewhere there are some human markers that can give some idea of race/background? |
I had to submit a photo of Bella, and a copy of her AKC papers, and submitted a high quality sample of her DNA. For me, the testing was free because they were adding her to their Yorkie database.
Yes, they use DNA markers to determine a person's ancestors' place of origin. I think it works better for humans because they lived in close-knit communities for thousands of years and had time to develop racial and regional differences in DNA markers before they started migrating on the large scale. For dogs, it's different, since many breeds emerged only within the past couple of hundred years. Yes, there are breed differences, but some of them are not THAT different.