In order to report on the father’s geographical ancestry, we would have to look at the Y chromosome haplotype but, because your dog is female, she doesn’t have a Y chromosome to look at.
Every dog has two sex chromosomes (well, there are very rare exceptions, but for the most part dogs are going to have two sex chromosomes). Female dogs have two X-chromosomes (XX) and male dogs have one X-chromosome and one Y-chromosome (XY). When having offspring, female (XX) dogs pass one of their two X-chromosome copies to their puppy. Male (XY) dogs can pass either an X (resulting in a daughter) or a Y-chromosome (son). As you can see, Y-chromosomes are passed down from a sire to all of his male offspring, and daughters do not receive any genetic material from their father's Y. In other words, we, can not determine any information about the paternal haplotype in female dogs because that entire chromosome is completely missing from their genome. However, that does not mean that only half a dog's DNA is tested merely because they are female
While we can not trace the Paternal Haplotype of female dogs, we are still fully able to identify their breed breakdown contributed from both the male and female parent which you can view on the Breed tab of your results.
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