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Airedale Terrier

Airedale Terrier genetic profile from the CanVAS Atlas. 18 dogs in the Atlas, heterozygosity 0.27. Nearest relatives, trait loci frequencies, cohort distribution.

What the atlas says about Airedale Terrier

In the atlas, the Airedale Terrier clusters consistently as Airedale Terrier (100% of the 18 dogs here). At the trait loci, HMGA2 runs lower than average (6% here vs 56%); RSPO2 runs higher than the atlas average (93% here vs 55%). Dogs here sit in a relatively sparse region of the atlas, fewer close neighbors than typical.

Only 18 dogs of this breed in the atlas, modestly sampled.

Closest genetic neighbors in the atlas: Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier, Rat Terrier, village dog Fiji Kadavu, Yorkshire Terrier, and village dog Fiji Viti Levu.

Genetic dimensions · CanVAS atlas

What the genome says about Airedale Terrier

Computed from the 14,478 research dogs in the Atlas. Methods: technical methodology.

Dogs in the Atlas
18Founders
12 from Hayward2016, 3 from Spatola, 2 from JenkinsWGS
Genetic diversity
0.27Tight
Mean heterozygosity across the breed. Too few dogs in this breed (<20) to rank.
Cluster structure
Single tight cluster
Intra-breed RMS distance: 27.17
Nearest genetic relatives
  1. Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier7.04
  2. Rat Terrier7.34
  3. Village Dog Fiji Kadavu7.62
  4. Yorkshire Terrier7.90
  5. Village Dog Fiji Viti Levu8.10
Top-10 PC corrected Euclidean. Lower = closer.
Trait genetics
Allele frequencies at named morphology loci

Frequency of the alternate allele in this breed at each locus's representative SNP. Methods + caveats in technical methodology.

Body size
IGF120%
HMGA26%
SMAD297%
LCORL97%
STC275%
ADAMTS1734%
Leg length
FGF4·CFA1894%
FGF4·CFA12100%
Coat
RSPO293%
FGF594%
KRT7194%
MC1R97%
Ear set
MSRB3100%
Skull shape
BMP397%
SMOC272%
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Sources: CanVAS (Brundage 2026) · CanVAS dimensions data