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My dog looks mixed breed, but I got a 100% breed result. How is this possible?Updated 9 days ago

There are several possible explanations for this. One possibility is that one relative belonging to a similar breed or with mixed ancestry is several generations removed from your dog but, by chance, passed on a gene with an outsized influence on your dog’s physical appearance (e.g., coat color). While your dog’s ancestry overall might be virtually entirely attributable to a single breed, their physical appearance may be heavily skewed by a very small amount of genetic variation or even a single gene making up only a tiny fraction of their genome. This may also occur if one parent inherited a portion of their ancestry from a relative with such significant genetic diversity that no single breed can be identified when tracing back several generations.

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