DNA tests and Laboratories

[canislupus]

Hello all,
I called yesterday the president of the fund " Gesellschaft für kynologische Forschung"
The president told me that they had this year only 60.000€ to spend, that she thinks next year it will be less and that there are so many institutions who want to get some money from them.
So we have no chamce to get any money from them. Our breed is too small and healthy. And our HD-project is not important for many people...

She also told me, that she does not trust in a test based on just 200 blood samples. For the german shepherd test they had thousands of blood samples.

@Mijke: what do you think about this? I am not experienced with validation of those tests. Is she right? How can we get to know if the test will be really good or if there will be more or less wrong results. (before we have to pay lots of money...)

She told me to think about spending so much money on a maybe not very good test or maybe better talking to some Experts for genetics and work together with them.

so, what´s the right way?
Tanja