Health results (also DM!!) in the Wolfdog.org database

[koboldine]

Originally Posted by Admin

OFFA tested about 20.000 dogs - there was not even ONE muttation. It is why they give certificates for the puppies that they are "free" when the parents are tested and free.

It is made by the most known laboratory. Believe me - they would not make it of they will have ANY doubts that it is ok.

I wouldn´t dare to doubt that a huge laboratory can handle their results in that way. But this is not OFFA - so the results you receive have been archieved by many laboratories, they submitt the results to the owner, who then decides if they are published here, right? So there are officially recognized laboratories for testing DM and Dwarfism - and there are others. Although in this data base the results of both are published, they are marked as inofficial, when the laboratory is not recognized for DM and Dwarfism testing.
Nevertheless, they are taken for granted when someone assumes the genetic disposition of their parents and their puppies.

IF you really want to draw conclusions from results, shouldn´t you conclude from official results only?

I think it gets al little ... confusing for interested people - or do we now have four categories:
1) Tested by recognized laboratory,
2) assumption due to parents/puppies Test of recognized laboratory,
3) tested but not officially recognized,
4) assumption due to parents/puppies Test of NON-recognized laboratory?

What will happen, when I get a result for my dog - and it does not fit into the assumption of the "results" of its parents? Will there be doubt about my dogs results (lets say they are from a recognized laboratory) or will the doubt affect the parents and the parent-ship? Do I then have to take a parentage test - or does the breeder have to do it?

Does this lead to genetic "fingerprint" of all dogs to proof their pedigree?
(I don´t think that´s bad BUT ...)