Embark has the only dog DNA test that includes
diverse village dogs from around the world in its breed reference panel.
Not exact matches
However, our analysis of a more
diverse sample set that includes
village dogs confirms only 18 of these loci as putative domestication targets, the remainder are likely associated with breed formation (Supplementary Table 19 and Supplementary Note 14).
«The reason that East Asia looked more
diverse than elsewhere was not because East Asia as a continent had more
diverse dogs than elsewhere but because non breed street and
village dogs are more
diverse than breed
dogs.»
Lead scientist, Dr Adam Boyko of the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology at Cornell University, says he decided to focus his research on African
village dogs because they are so much more genetically
diverse than
dogs that are bred.