According to a recent article a single DNA test is not plenty information to obtain a healthy pedigree for a dog. The scientist in the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute had taken different approaches to further investigate how to potentially decrease the health issues of pedigrees in animals. Because only relaying in a DNA test can involve risk, is best if the DNA test is not done alone but also with pedigree information from their family and health screening schemes. To have the health screenings before breeding the dogs is known to have reduced the likelihood for some diseases to take place. Also a different method is to cross-breed this will result in a bigger genetic diversity. The article talks about how the breeding between an offspring from a cross breeding and a pure breed pedigree, will result in an offspring that shares a 99.9 percent of their genetic material with the original pedigree but also the offspring will absence the gene that produces the diseases. In conclusion for a better understanding on how to potentially decrease the health risk in the dog pedigree is best to run further test, to prevent future risk in the offspring pedigree.

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