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Technical Update

What DNA Service Providers are available to NZHA Breeders?

Choosing which test best suits your farming operations, dictates Step 2 – The Process
which service provider to choose and thus what form your - How do I take a sample and submit it?
sample needs to be. The answer is dependent on which service provider you choose.
The current choices of service providers who offer verified SNP • Neogen only accept hair or wet tissue sampling units
DNA tests for NZHA genetic defects and provide a DNA profile (TSU)s. For more information on how to take a hair sample
include: or wet TSU, refer to the NZHA website/genomics/how to
• Neogen – located in Australia – samples sent to PBB take a sample.
• Genomnz – located in NZ – samples sent directly • Hair or wet TSUs for Neogen must be submitted with an
For more information regarding the services the above service electronic genotype application form to PBB – download
providers offer, refer to the NZHA website, under the tab from the NZHA website/genomics/service providers/
‘genomics’. Neogen.
To break down the SNP DNA process, NZHA and PBB have • Genomnz accept wet or dry TSUs (but NOT hair) and
broken this into 3 Steps: samples must be submitted directly to Genomnz with
an online submission form. Refer to the NZHA website/
Step 1 – What Test? genomics/Genomnz for more detail. (Both service
- Which test do I want and thus which service provider do providers accept semen).
I choose?
See below infographic to help you answer this question.

SNP

STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3

Sires or potential
Sires used for mating 150k 50k
SNP
SNP

Importation 50k
Sires/Semen SNP

PBB
Hair Wet Semen
Animals Seek 50k TSU pbbnz.com
for transfers Sire SNP

Seek 50k
Sire SNP
Replacement
Heifers
GENOMNZ
10k
SNP Wet Semen TSU genomnz.co.nz
Dry
TSU

150k SNP: research well used sire
Key 50k SNP: genomic evaluation
Seek Sire: parentage only
10k SNP: no future predictions

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