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Genetics

Video walkthrough: Watch on Loom (link coming soon)
Genetics is where you record each dog’s coat color, pattern, and coat-trait results from their DNA panel. Save them once on the dog’s profile and BreederBuddy reuses them in the Genetics Forecast to predict what a pairing could produce — so you can plan breedings and answer buyer questions with confidence.

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What You Can Do Here

  • Record color, pattern, and coat-trait genotypes for each dog, locus by locus
  • Mark each result as Lab-tested, Inferred, or Unknown
  • Let Buddy fill in the genetics panel from an Embark report
  • Forecast possible puppy coat colors, patterns, coat length, furnishings, curl, and merle for any sire and dam
  • See the projected COI (inbreeding coefficient) for a pairing
  • Download a forecast PDF or copy a buyer-friendly summary
Health testing (OFA, PennHIP, genetic disease panels) lives on the Certifications tab, not here. See Health Certifications.

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How It Works

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Viewing a Dog’s Genetics

  1. Go to Dogs in the left menu and click the dog to open their profile.
  2. Click the Genetics tab (in the Breeding & Lineage group on the side).
  3. You’ll see the dog’s loci grouped by type. Each locus shows its Genotype, its Confidence, and what it Affects.

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Adding Genetics Information

  1. On the dog’s Genetics tab, click Edit genetics at the top right.
  2. For each locus you have results for (for example E locus, K locus, A locus, B locus, D locus, S locus, M locus, Coat length, Furnishings, Cu locus), pick the Genotype from the dropdown. If you only know one copy, choose the “(one allele known)” option.
  3. Set Confidence to Lab-tested for DNA results, or Inferred if you worked it out from color or offspring.
  4. Leave anything you don’t know as Unknown.
  5. Click Save genetics. You’ll see “Updated genetics.” and the values now show on the tab.
Have an Embark, Paw Print Genetics or Wisdom Panel report? Instead of typing it in, click Import Embark or DNA report on this tab (or Import with Buddy at the top of the dog’s profile) and drop in the PDF or a photo of it. Buddy turns it into a full genetics panel, logs the health results, and records the report’s DNA-test COI, all for you to review and approve.

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Genetics Forecast

The Genetics Forecast lets you pick a sire and dam and see the possible outcomes for their puppies.
  1. Go to Genetics Forecast in the left menu (under Tools & Analytics). You can also click Test Pairing with Dam (or Test Pairing with Sire) on a dog’s Genetics tab to start with that dog already filled in.
  2. Under Sire, choose from My dogs, or switch to Outside dogs for a dog from your pedigree records. Each pick shows how many of their loci are saved.
  3. Do the same under Dam.
  4. Right under the parent pickers is the Projected Offspring COI (Selected Pair) card (marked Beta), followed by a Parent genetics summary.
  5. Below those is the forecast: Coat colors, Base pattern, White spotting, Coat length, Furnishings, Curl, and Merle, each with a Most likely and a Possible (less certain) list. Further down, Suggested tests lists tests that would make the forecast more precise.
  6. Click Download PDF in the top right to save the forecast, or use Copy summary under Buyer-friendly summary to paste a plain-language version into a message.
The Genetics Forecast is built for dog coat genetics, so it appears in the left menu for dog programs only.

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Key Terms

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Tips & Common Questions

No — enter what you have. Anything left as Unknown widens the forecast, so you’ll see ranges instead of exact percentages, but partial data still gives you useful results.
One or both parents have unknown or one-allele-known results for some loci. Open the forecast’s Why am I seeing ranges / extra possibilities? section to see which loci, and check Suggested tests to see what would narrow it down.
Pick the option with the same two alleles, in any order: a report saying “e/E” is E/e in the dropdown. For Coat length and Furnishings, the dropdown also shows Embark’s shorthand next to each option, for example L/L (Embark GG / ShSh), F/F (Embark FF), F/f (Embark FI), and f/f (Embark II). If the report only gives one allele, choose the “(one allele known)” option, and leave anything you can’t match as Unknown. Easiest of all: drop the Embark report into Import with Buddy and Buddy maps it for you.
Yes, that’s what the Genetics Forecast is for. Pick any sire and dam, including outside dogs from your pedigrees, and you’ll see likely puppy colors and coat types plus the projected COI. Nothing is saved or created, so try as many pairings as you like.
On the dog’s Certifications tab, not Genetics. The Genetics tab is only for coat color, pattern, and coat traits. Upload the OFA or lab PDF on Certifications and BreederBuddy reads it for you.
Run the pairing in Genetics Forecast, then click Copy summary under Buyer-friendly summary and paste it into your message, or click Download PDF and send the file.
It only shows for dog programs. If you run a cattery, the Genetics tab on each profile still works, but the forecast isn’t available.

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Still Have Questions?

We’re here to help. If something isn’t working the way you expect, or you’d like to have a discussion around a certain topic, please reach out to us anytime through the chat in the bottom right corner of your screen. Thank you.