What does a "no call" result mean?

Under rare circumstances, a dog tested with Embark might have a “no call” result for a given health condition or trait. To ensure accuracy, we use multiple probes for each gene that we know to be associated with a genetic health condition (a probe is a small sequence of single-stranded DNA that allows us to find the complementary strand in your dog’s DNA sample). 

Most often, these multiple probes will “agree” with each other. However, once in a while, either due to sample quality or other factors, our probes do not agree, which means that we cannot confidently determine a dog’s genetic status at a given location. We do not want to report a result that we are not confident in, so these discordant results are displayed as “no call” or “no result” on our website. 

“No calls” have no impact on other results.