The truth about your dog,
including what we still don’t know.
Add your dog to a map of canine genetics built on open science. Ask about a breed, a gene, or a diagnosis, and every answer is cited to the same sources vets and researchers use, or it says plainly that the evidence is not there yet. No fear. No sales pitch.
When a dog passes, their star stays in the atlas.
Pax’s page is kept in full, his photos, his story, and the record his owner built, beside the cited biology of a Corgi and a Rottweiler.
That biology includes degenerative myelopathy, documented in Corgis and studied in human ALS.OMIA 000263-9615
Without a DNA test, we never named which variants Pax himself carried, and his page says so.
Some herding breeds carry MDR1 at a cited rate. A vet can choose safer drugs when the variant is known.OMIA 001402-9615
That rate is about dogs like hers, not a verdict about this dog.
Honest gapCharted cannot say whether she carries it. That takes a file. The star still goes on the map, and the cited breed page sits beside her name.
We checked 16,754 human disease genes for a dog that could model them. Most are still dark, so we sorted every one by why.
We map what we don’t know, not only what we do. A named gap is a research question.ClinVar · Ensembl orthology
See the full frontier map →The same genes break in both species. Every canine disease we document, we link to the human disease it mirrors, through the gene they share.
One gene, two species. A dog that carries it is a natural model for a disease people still cannot cure.Awano 2009
Many canine conditions on the atlas already carry a link like this to their human counterpart.
Built on open science, cited to the source.
Every claim on Sniff traces back to a real record you can open and read, the same OMIA entries, breed cohorts, and classification guidelines a specialist would use. Nothing here is invented.
Your dog belongs here.
These are not points on a chart. Each star is a real dog whose DNA helped build what we know. Add yours and it takes a permanent place among them, and the more of their story you choose to share, the more they can help the dogs who come after.
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Some herding breeds carry MDR1 at a cited rate. A vet can choose safer drugs when the variant is known.OMIA 001402-9615
That rate is about dogs like hers, not a verdict about this dog.
Honest gapCharted cannot say whether she carries it. That takes a file. The star still goes on the map, and the cited breed page sits beside her name.
The room we keep
When a dog passes, their star stays. That is a different room.
When a dog passes, their star stays in the atlas.
Pax’s page is kept in full, his photos, his story, and the record his owner built, beside the cited biology of a Corgi and a Rottweiler.
That biology includes degenerative myelopathy, documented in Corgis and studied in human ALS.OMIA 000263-9615
Without a DNA test, we never named which variants Pax himself carried, and his page says so.