Xinhua: China Records Gigi's DNA To Avoid Inbreeding
HARBIN, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) - Chinese zoologists have launched a
program to test and register the DNA of Siberian tigers at the
country's largest breeding center to keep track of their
bloodlines and avoid inbreeding. Zoologists from the Chinese Academy of Forestry Sciences and northeast China's Heilongjiang Province are set to test more than 300 tigers at the Hengdaohezi tiger breeding center. Zoologists hope the development of the tigers' "DNA pedigrees and genetic management system" will help prevent inbreeding and thus genetic degeneration among the tigers bred in captivity. "We've discovered genetic degeneration among our bred Siberian tigers," said Liu Dan, the breeding center's general engineer. The degeneration symptoms included slow body development, blurry stripes, deformity and organ underdevelopment, Liu said.

i don't have blurry stripes, any deformity (if you'll exclude my convoluted brain), and i definitely don't have any organ underdevelopment! can i give this one a pass? :D