nymphetamines_

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nymphetamines_29 karma

They've actually gone too far the other direction; now they insist on assigning every single percentage to some breed, no matter how completely improbable. Many mutts come back with a few dozen exceedingly rare breeds at 1-2%.

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This is a cool question, and it's especially relevant to APBTs & AmStaffs, which were the same dogs (just in the UK vs US) when they were first registered. I hope they answer this one!

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More business-focused:

1) Do you have plans to add testing for village dog/pariah dog DNA, since they make up over half of the world's dogs?

2) Do you have plans to reintroduce a sort of "undetermined" percentage, rather than assigning every percentage a breed?

3) Do you have plans to add newer breeds? Your recent move to add APBT was a great one, but I'm hoping you don't add American Bully, which I think was a big misstep by Embark. It's way too new.

Genetics:

1) How possible is it to reconstruct a family tree of particular dogs if you know they're genetically related?

2) Does the above become significantly more difficult when there's inbreeding?

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Thanks so much for the detailed answer! I didn't know village dogs got added as well, excited to see some on r/DoggyDNA soon. The explanations about relatives make complete sense as well.

I have a two-part follow-up question, and was reminded since you mentioned furnishings: my dog is 50% Saluki, and I'm curious if the gene for Saluki feathering (not furnishing) has been identified? It's my understanding that it's believed by breeders to be a simple-recessive single gene, but I'm not sure if it's been genetically identified.

How does the inheritance of breed-specific recessive genes work when the trait doesn't appear in the other parent's breed mix? Are the same genes/loci present in all other breeds and just always homozygous dominant?

To illustrate what I mean, if my dog's dad was a feathered Saluki (ff), but his mom was a Doberman/Golden (no feathering in either breed), what would he inherit for the other allele? Would it be Ff or something entirely different (Xf)?