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Village Dog Cook Islands

Village Dog Cook Islands genetic profile from the CanVAS Atlas. 10 dogs in the Atlas, heterozygosity 0.26. Nearest relatives, trait loci frequencies, cohort distribution.

What the atlas says about Village Dog Cook Islands

In the atlas, the village dog Cook Islands clusters consistently as village dog Cook Islands (100% of the 10 dogs here). At the trait loci, MSRB3 runs lower than average (0% here vs 80%); STC2 runs lower than average (0% here vs 74%). Dogs here sit in a relatively sparse region of the atlas, fewer close neighbors than typical.

High breed predictability score (12.81), individual dogs of this breed reliably cluster together genetically. Only 10 dogs of this breed in the atlas, modestly sampled.

Closest genetic neighbors in the atlas: Feral Dog Capeyork, Feral Dog Chernobyl, village dog Tajikistan, village dog East Russia, and village dog Crusade.

Genetic dimensions · CanVAS atlas

What the genome says about Village Dog Cook Islands

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

Dogs in the Atlas
10Founders
10 from Spatola
Genetic diversity
0.26Tight
Mean heterozygosity across the breed. Too few dogs in this breed (<20) to rank.
Cluster structure
Single tight cluster
Intra-breed RMS distance: 10.40
Nearest genetic relatives
  1. Feral Dog Capeyork20.93
  2. Feral Dog Chernobyl22.00
  3. Village Dog Tajikistan22.09
  4. Village Dog East Russia22.59
  5. Village Dog Crusade22.73
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
IGF180%
HMGA240%
SMAD290%
LCORL10%
STC20%
ADAMTS1790%
Leg length
FGF4·CFA18100%
FGF4·CFA1290%
Coat
RSPO210%
FGF590%
KRT7180%
MC1R100%
Ear set
MSRB30%
Skull shape
BMP35%
SMOC240%
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Sources: CanVAS (Brundage 2026) · CanVAS dimensions data