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Vertical pedigree
| | The value of vertical pedigrees can be most fully appreciated through understanding an essential genetic principle that should correctly be the foundation of most complex breeding decisions. This principle is that full siblings are, on average,
equally genetically similar to each other as they are to each of their parents. All of the littermates taken as a group represent various combinations of their parents?
genes, and are good indicators of the range of possibilities that are likely to be passed on from any one of them. Likewise, phenotypic information about the aunts and uncles of a given dog, is equally as important as is that of the grandparents. Thus,
dogs who do not even appear on traditional horizontal pedigrees, may be more significant genetically than are the more distant relatives who do. By overlooking
these siblings, aunts, uncles, great-aunts, and great-uncles, the pertinent data base may be reduced by as much as four fold or more (the number of littermates for whom data might be available).*
*Reprinted from the Orthopedic
Foundation for Animals website. Full document can be found at:
http://www.offa.org/hovanart.pdf
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Parents |
Grandparents |
Great
Grandparents |
BIS
AM/CAN CH WOLF RIVER'S IRON WILL
sire "GOOD"
Sibs(5)
EXCELLENT(2)
GOOD(2)
FAIR(1)
Offspring(1)
GOOD(1) |
CH
WOLF RIVER'S DIAMOND DUST
sire "EXCELLENT"
Sibs(3)
EXCELLENT(1)
GOOD(2) |
BISS
CH
WOLF RIVER'S DRUMLIN ROMC
sire "NORMAL"
Sibs(5)
NORMAL(4)
NORMAL(1) |
CH SEAMIST'S RAVEN OF WOLF RIVER ROMC
dam "NORMAL"
Sibs(1)
GOOD(1) |
CH WOLF RIVER'S
DACOTAH ROMC
dam "GOOD"
Sibs(0) |
CH WOLF RIVER'S FALCON
sire "GOOD"
Sibs(5)
EXCELLENT(1)
GOOD(3)
FAIR(1) |
BISS BIS CH
WOLF RIVER'S TERRA ROMC
dam "NORMAL"
Sibs(5)
EXCELLENT(1)
NORMAL(1)
GOOD(2)
NORMAL(1) |
CH
ORKDOMAIN'S
CALICO AND TWEED CGC
dam "GOOD"
Sibs(0)
Offspring(1)
GOOD(1) |
CH
WOLF RIVER ARKKO OF HYBORAEA
sire "GOOD"
Sibs(1)
GOOD(1) |
CH
WOLF RIVER'S SIBERIAN TAIGA
sire "GOOD"
Sibs(1)
FAIR(1) |
CH WOLF RIVER'S KESTREL
dam "GOOD"
Sibs(5)
EXCELLENT(1)
GOOD(3)
FAIR(1) |
CH ORKDOMAIN'S SIREN OF SEAMIST
dam "FAIR"
Sibs(3)
GOOD(1)
FAIR(2) |
CH SEAMIST'S SPELLBINDER
sire "GOOD"
Sibs(1)
NORMAL(1) |
CH SUBARKTIKA KODIAK KARLUK
dam "GOOD"
Sibs(0) |
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