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A blog by Aimee Llewellyn-Zaidi in General

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A series of your questions, researched for you and answered by health experts. If you’d like to submit a question, please email aimee.llewellyn-zaidi@ipfdogs.com.

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Ask Aimee: What's the difference between pedigree COI and genomic COI?

Recently we have had questions from dog breeder health advisors about using inbreeding tools, particularly pedigree-based tools such as estimating Coefficients of Inbreeding (COI). This blog discussion describes COIs, some advantages and disadvantages, and provides thoughts on usage. There are several resources available to both individual breeders and breed organizations (clubs and kennel clubs) that can help to monitor and track genetic diversity, and estimate an individual dog's