Only Embark is able to provide you with a wolfiness score for your dog. A higher wolfiness score does not mean your dog has recent wolf ancestry (this would be reflected in the breed results), but does mean your dog has some neat, ancient genetic variants! We look at divergent markers in those regions and assign each dog a "wolfiness" score. There are a couple dozen regions of the genome that scientists think were really important in dog domestication (called "candidate domestication regions" or CDR) because they have very different patterns of genetic diversity in dogs versus wolves.
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- Trait Results Overview
- What is Wolfiness?
- Is Genetic Weight and Genetic Age included with all Embark kits?
- My dog herds, points, or retrieves, but my Embark results don’t show any breeds known for these behaviors.
- My dog has webbed feet, but her results don't include any breeds that have webbed feet.
- Can you tell me if my dog will shed?
- Which chromosomes are certain health conditions and traits located on?
- My dog has a short coat, but his ancestors are long-haired breeds
- My dog has a long coat, but his ancestors are short-haired breeds.
- Where did my dog’s short legs come from?
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