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Village Dog Papua New Guinea Port Moresby

Village Dog Papua New Guinea Port Moresby genetic profile from the CanVAS Atlas. 9 dogs in the Atlas, heterozygosity 0.37. Nearest relatives, trait loci frequencies, cohort distribution.

What the atlas says about Village Dog Papua New Guinea Port Moresby

In the atlas, the village dog Papua New Guinea Port Moresby clusters consistently as village dog Papua New Guinea Port Moresby (100% of the 9 dogs here). Genetic diversity is high (mean heterozygosity 0.3728), reflecting either a mixed-breed cluster or breeds with broad genetic backgrounds. At the trait loci, HMGA2 runs lower than average (17% here vs 56%); BMP3 runs higher than the atlas average (100% here vs 66%).

Mean heterozygosity is 0.373, notably high, indicates broad genetic background. High breed predictability score (3.00), individual dogs of this breed reliably cluster together genetically. Only 9 dogs of this breed in the atlas, every individual contributes outsized weight to the breed's computed profile.

Closest genetic neighbors in the atlas: village dog Papua New Guinea East Highlands, village dog Fiji Kadavu, Finnish Lapphund, village dog Puerto Rico, and village dog Costa Rica.

Genetic dimensions · CanVAS atlas

What the genome says about Village Dog Papua New Guinea Port Moresby

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

Dogs in the Atlas
9Founders
5 from Hayward2016, 4 from Shannon
Genetic diversity
0.37Diverse
Mean heterozygosity across the breed. Too few dogs in this breed (<20) to rank.
Cluster structure
Single tight cluster
Intra-breed RMS distance: 15.59
Nearest genetic relatives
  1. Village Dog Papua New Guinea East Highlands8.12
  2. Village Dog Fiji Kadavu12.00
  3. Finnish Lapphund12.02
  4. Village Dog Puerto Rico12.89
  5. Village Dog Costa Rica13.14
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
IGF167%
HMGA217%
SMAD272%
LCORL94%
STC272%
ADAMTS1772%
Leg length
FGF4·CFA1894%
FGF4·CFA1267%
Coat
RSPO244%
FGF550%
KRT7189%
MC1R78%
Ear set
MSRB394%
Skull shape
BMP3100%
SMOC250%
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Sources: CanVAS (Brundage 2026) · CanVAS dimensions data