It is important to know that the COI value is an indication of inbreeding; it is not an exact science. The method we use to calculate the inbreeding coefficient is a generally recognized scientific method also used by other laboratories (for more information, see COI).
However, the specific positions (SNP markers) used by a lab may differ between laboratories, which can result in final values differing from each other while the applied method remains the same. Therefore, it is very important that the COI values issued by us are only compared with other COI values issued by us. The same applies to the COI values from other laboratories; these should only be compared with other COI values issued by the same laboratory.
