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How Effective Are Blood-Typing Tests?

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How Effective Are Blood-Typing Tests?

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The strength of blood-typing tests is in the detection of errors that would otherwise be perpetuated in pedigree records. The power of the present battery of tests to detect an incorrectly identified sire or dam when the other parent is recorded accurately is about 95 percent. When both parents are incorrect, which occurs when crias are switched, the efficacy rate approaches 98 percent. Theoretically, additional blood-typing tests can be developed to increase the efficacy rate, but based on recent research and the extensive screening for new systems that has been done to date, improvements will not likely come from the development of new blood tests. Our efforts are currently being directed to the development of DNA typing tests that are highly informative and that have efficacy rates approaching 100 percent. Such tests are already in use for cattle, horses, dogs, cats, sheep, and goats. DNA Fingerprinting Advances in molecular biology have produced a large assortment of laboratory pro

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