From the Manufacturer

What is Wisdom Panel® 2.0 DNA Test?

With a simple cheek swab, you can uncover DNA-based insights that may help you understand your dog’s unique appearance, behaviors, and wellness needs. You’ll be emailed an official Ancestry Report revealing your dog’s genetic background including:

• Mixed Breed Dog: breed ancestry identification back to great-grandparents
• Purebred Dog: breed certification and level of genetic diversity
• Designer Dog: certification that your dog is a true 50/50 hybrid of two purebred parents
• Adult weight range prediction: to help you make apprpriate nutrition and diet choices
• Breed insights to help you provide a better training program, understand behavior, and create an effective care and wellness plan

How does Wisdom Panel® work?

Once your sample is received at our lab, it is scanned into our database and assigned to a batch for testing. It then undergoes processing to extract the DNA from your dog’s cells which is examined for the 321 markers that are used in the test. The results for these markers are sent to a computer that evaluated them using a program designed to consider all of the pedigree trees that are possible in the last three generations. The trees considered include a simple pedigree with a single breed (a likely pure-bred dog), two different breeds at the parental level (a first-generation cross), all the way up to a complex tree with eight different great-grandparent breeds allowed. Our computer used information from our extensive breed database to fill these potential pedigrees. For each of the millions of com