ISAG::Comparison Test Guidelines

Please have a look at the following relevant documents concerning the IFAG-ISAG comparison tests and send your comment to ISAG Secretary.

Suggestions for guidelines for CTs:
Suggestions for implementing a rating system of the results of CTs :

COMPARISON TESTS 2009-2010 for all species (except Camelids) :

Please find here all consignment forms for the 2009-2010 IFAG-ISAG International Comparison Tests.

All Consignment Forms as pdf file:
All consignment Forms as word file:

If you prefer the consignment forms for specific species, here they are :

Cattle, or
Horse, or
Sheep, or
Goat, or
Dog, or
Cat, or

For any questions, don't hesitate to contact ISAG Secretary André Eggen.

South American Camelids Comparison Test

A special workshop was held at the ISAG 2008 conference to discuss standardization of genotyping nomenclature for microsatellite markers used in parentage testing panels for alpacas and llamas. The need for standardization arose from the increasing exchange of genotype records between registries, and lack of a uniform panel and allele designations among laboratories providing the genotyping services. A consensus of the workshop was that the standardization process needed to be expedited. To this end, it was agreed that a special comparison test would be held in the last quarter of 2008 and that, by the end of March 2009, recommendations could be made for a minimum required panel and a standard nomenclature.

The Comparison Test is currently ongoing and first results will be available soon. Please contact Becky Evans or André Eggen may you have any questions on this issue.

Consignment form the the Camelids Comparison Test :
You can either download the form as Word or pdf file

Word or Pdf

Further information of interest concerning the ISAG Comparison Tests :

General Information on ISAG Comparison Tests (size-80KB)

Panels of markers :

Other information of interest :

Exclusion probability in parentage tests (size-36KB)

Recommandations for animal DNA forensic and identity testing : please have a look at the following paper :
Int J Legal Med (2005) 119: 295–302

DOI 10.1007/s00414-005-0545-9