Wieje nudą sposób niewymierny spodobały się gestem miłosierdzia astralnych pasożytów answered question by providing greater insight into the overall test: The computer is making the neighborhood of 7 million statistical calculations matching 's data to our database and what I is a very distilled version of that analysis I 't have that degree of granularity available to look at and be able to tell you that it is making a match say on chromosome A at position D. What I can tell you is that some breeds have a genetic signature pattern that is very tight e.g. not a lot variation certain areas and if a mixed breed dog happens to have a similar pattern or signature by chance it can come up as a false positive match to that breed I tell you that the Entlebucher is not one I commonly as a false positive is definitely unique that way. Oh, is unique, all right. Lurch is special, as are Tyche and Pullo, and any dog loved by its forever family. But, if the Wisdom Panel test told me only what I already knew for certain that American Staffordshire terriers pop up all three dogs' background was it a waste of money? I think it's amazing that even the one breed was deciphered by 320 or different markers, says PennGen's Giger, whose lab has no affiliation with Wisdom Panel. The answer is complex. Hughes notes that knowing the high percentage of AmStaffie dogs can also help me be vigilant about certain conditions, such as skin cancer, that they are more likely to get, regardless of what other breeds contributed to their DNA. It's also possible, note both Giger and Hughes, to run a much more precise breed identification DNA test, but it would cost thousands of dollars, well beyond what most dog owners would be willing or able to spend. Giger theorizes that Wisdom Panel be less helpful to owners of dogs like pit bull types that are the product of backyard breeders, who operate outside of AKC-registered bloodlines and often introduce other breeds to their stock hopes of capturing a specific trait such as size, coat color or even regional aesthetics. One would have to moderate enthusiasm for the test results of a more locally generated dog, Giger says tactfully. I'm glad I gave Wisdom Panel a shot, even if rambunctious but good-natured dogs are definitely of the locally-generated variety. It gave me a better understanding of the science that goes into breed identification though I can't help but note the shelter assessment nailed a three-out-of-three for pups. the big picture, people want a label, says Sparapani, executive director of Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission where I adopted dogs. Some people were calling boxer-black lab mixes, or terrier mixes. But I decided it's the dog's best interest to call it what it looks like. you know, if it looks like a duck, call it a duck. Because Dogo Argentino probably isn't the wisdom panel database and thus can't be detected. APBT is also not on the database it's actually not possible to test a purebred APBT and get a result that says 100% pitbull APBT normally come up as mostly AmStaff mixture of other breeds since there is greater genetic variation APBT due to AmStaff founding stock being cherry picked from APBT stock when the breed started a mix of random other breeds is how the test interpret that extra variation. Since not test for purity of a purebred, pedigreed dog and because of their results come out with some extremely rare breed the mix, like water spaniel or Tibetan spaniel, I have no confidence the Wisdom panel other than as entertainment. Many pure breeds have been derived from the same interbreeding landrace only recently and share ancestry. An example are the Tibetan origin breeds Lhasa Apso, Tibetan Terrier and Tibetan spaniel. Markers must be shared across such closely related and recently separated breeds, why doesn't provide a list of all potential ancestral breeds rather than concentrate reporting the rarest? I doubt their results reach the 90% valid level. Last I heard they used one litter of a known cross of two pure breeds to validate the test, and the panel did not even get all of them correct. I have asked the company times for their validation test results statistics, and they do not answer inquiries, even when I tell them I am a professional dog writer. If someone knows where I can find more recent, complete information on Wisdom Panel's validity testing please post it. It's worth clarifying that Pit Bull IS a breed, just not a breed recognized by the test, or some breed clubs–the American Pit Bull Terrier is a breed, and the only dog that should be colloquially referred to as a pit bull. Agreed that the longer-legged white dogs should have come back with Dogo, as the breed standard for APBTs or even Staffordshire Terriers dictates a shorter leg-to-body ratio. Agreed also that the prevalence of rare breeds and breeds not endemic to the geographic area of origin of a given dog casts serious doubts on the accuracy of Wisdom Panel's tests. Interesting, additionally, that the black Staffordshire mix here presented standard Schnauzer