It's time for another Embark results thread Widget 100% American Pit Bull Terrier https://embarkvet.com/dog/queenmakeda Predicted weight was 52lbs (just like my last female) but she is nearly full grown and 27lbs. She will fill out some more and end up a little heavier, but she will never be 52lbs. She's seal with a little bit of white. Her color genetics is exactly as I expected AyAy Bb DD EmE Kbky. Which means she's genetically dominant black, carries liver (called red nose in my breed, her dad is chocolate so no brainer there), doesn't carry dilute (blue), genetically is masked (can't see that with her color, but her mom has one so I knew likely). Her 20 generation calculated coefficient of inbreeding is 12.8%, but Embarks genetic calculation is 9%. She does lack MHC II gene diversity.
We can look up the COI for any of our dogs in our MyKC online records. It also gives the average figure for the breed as a whole. Using Mate Select, you can predict the figure for any projected mating. An individual dog's health test results can also be accessed this way. Do you have a scheme equivalent to this in the US? The figures could be less than reliable, as they will depend on the number of generations available for analysis - which can be a difficulty for some breeders with imported stock. As my last homebred puppies were born in 1988, not something I have to worry about these days!
Mine was 12.8% calculated by pedigree, but hers is truly only 9%. Looking up on KC database isn't going to be accurate, it is really an estimated of tnt likely amount of homozygous genes. We all know littermates are not clones, so pups I'm a litter are not going to have the same rate of heterozygous and homozygous genes. Calculated by pedigree COI is theoretically what you could expect from a specific breeding, it can be more or less in actuality. The OFA lost a dogs health results (they will accept results from Embark and several labs). On the AKC websites or pedigrees it will list OFA/ ect info.
