Yes. The variants we analyse are inherited, so the results also provide clues about your pet’s family:
• Offspring: they may inherit the variant. If a carrier of a recessive variant is mated with another carrier of the same variant, some offspring could have two copies.
• Parents and siblings: the variant is usually inherited from at least one parent, or both if your pet has two copies of a recessive variant. Rarely, it arises for the first time, so the result alone does not establish the parents’ genotypes. Siblings are more likely than unrelated animals to carry it.
• Sharing the result with the breeder or the owners of related animals, for example through DNA Connect, may help them decide whether to test their pets.
Your pet’s result is only a clue about relatives. Each animal needs its own analysis to establish whether it carries the variant.