MARS Test Accuracy????

[chattiesmom]

Originally Posted by drafting

I don't belong to any club. I ask one person their views on breeding, not you. I'm trying to get a professional business mans views and you act like they have committed a crime of sorts. Is there something wrong with their breeding practices?

I already know the views of your club on breeding. I find it typical that you always seem to jump in and start attacking anyone that you think belongs to the BTCA.

I have to admit that out of all the people that I have talked to in the Biewer world, the BTCA members are the most sincere and nicest group of people yet. They have certainly been able to back up everything they say and being the only club that has the backing of Mrs. Biewer, speaks volumes in itself.

The questions you are asking in your last several posts are totally off topic for this thread. The topic of this thread is the accuracy of the Mars testing. Please note the first sentence in Rule #6 is "Keep posts on topic". If you wish to discuss the breeding practices of a specific member, it would be much more appropriate to either start a new thread - or better yet, do it privately.

I, for one, have found this to be a very interesting subject. I am glad that the member csagan101 brought this topic up and would like to see the some sort of documentation that gives substantial proof that the Mars testing has any validity.

[csagan001]

Originally Posted by chattiesmom

The questions you are asking in your last several posts are totally off topic for this thread. The topic of this thread is the accuracy of the Mars testing. Please note the first sentence in Rule #6 is "Keep posts on topic". If you wish to discuss the breeding practices of a specific member, it would be much more appropriate to either start a new thread - or better yet, do it privately.

I, for one, have found this to be a very interesting subject. I am glad that the member csagan101 brought this topic up and would like to see the some sort of documentation that gives substantial proof that the Mars testing has any validity.

Thankyou.

[peanut]

I am not a member of any of the Biewer clubs, haven't decided yet, but it does upset me being a owner of these great dogs, that everyone is in such disagreement, I wish that for once everyone could get along to help the Biewers and see them become the best they can be & should be. They are great furbabies! As for the test, I wish they could show some different markers for dieases and other problems, but right now it sounds to me like someone is just taking everyone's money

[csagan001]

Originally Posted by peanut

I am not a member of any of the Biewer clubs, haven't decided yet, but it does upset me being a owner of these great dogs, that everyone is in such disagreement, I wish that for once everyone could get along to help the Biewers and see them become the best they can be & should be. They are great furbabies! As for the test, I wish they could show some different markers for dieases and other problems, but right now it sounds to me like someone is just taking everyone's money

Thanks, Peanut. My sentiments exactly.

[Puppy_Breath]

Any new info about this subject yet?

[DrARL]

I'm not a dog breeder. I'm a mutt owner trying to find out whether the test is worth doing just for fun. I also have a PhD in molecular genetics, and know the fairly simple reason these tests can't be used to identify purebred animals:
Ancestry tests (including human ones) do not sequence the entire genome, nor do they test for phenotypic traits. Genes for things like hair color are too similar, even in differently colored animals, to be used in this type of test. Test makers identify snippets of the more variable "non-coding" DNA that are specific to a breed. The more snippets of DNA specific for a given breed are included in the test, the more accurately the test will identify the proportion of the ancestry attributable to that breed. However, these pieces of DNA are a tiny fraction of the entire genome, so the test could never "prove" that a dog was a purebred. It could only identify a single breed as the source of the snippets that were tested.
Why couldn't the test makers explain this?

[silverjoy]