Yes. Advanced is a useful tool for planning matings with your vet:
• It tells you whether your animal is a carrier of the recessive variants analysed, helping you avoid mating them with another carrier of the same variant.
• Do not exclude an animal solely because it is a carrier. Systematically removing carriers from breeding reduces a breed’s genetic diversity and may create other problems. For recessive diseases, mating a carrier with an animal without the variant can avoid offspring affected by that variant, although half the offspring will be carriers on average. They should be tested before breeding.
• Consider other factors. General health, temperament and other veterinary tests also matter. A negative result for one specific variant does not guarantee that the animal is free from other variants causing the same disease.
Before basing a mating decision on a result, confirm it using a new sample and an independent method at a veterinary laboratory. Results are neither a pedigree nor an official certificate. If a breed club or registry requires official genetic testing, it will usually require a vet to identify the animal and collect the sample. To learn your pet’s carrier status, choose Advanced for dogs or cats.