Dog DNA Testing
My trade magazine has published a journalistic review of three Dog DNA tests. You may find this video report helpful and interesting. C&EN tested one dog’s genetics and got weird results
Forum Discussion
I don’t care about these dna tests; however, these dog dna commercial ventures are using gene chips. These gene chips are manufactured by the same companies that make chips used in health research. The increasing sales of these chips helps to drive down the costs of the chips and drives innovation in the gene chips. In the video the geneticist talked about how these tests are like little windows along the genome; the more windows the more we know about that dog’s genes. In past studies on our breed we have run up against the issue that the state of the art gene chips did not have windows showing where the genes were different between dogs affected with a genetically linked disease and healthy dogs.
