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Wire Fox Terrier

Wire Fox Terrier genetic profile from the CanVAS Atlas. 10 dogs in the Atlas, heterozygosity 0.24. Nearest relatives, trait loci frequencies, cohort distribution.

What the atlas says about Wire Fox Terrier

In the atlas, the Wire Fox Terrier clusters consistently as Wire Fox Terrier (100% of the 10 dogs here). At the trait loci, STC2 runs lower than average (0% here vs 74%); MSRB3 runs lower than average (15% here vs 80%). Dogs here sit in a relatively sparse region of the atlas, fewer close neighbors than typical.

High breed predictability score (13.76), 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: village dog Nz Mid, Retriever Breed Unknown, Norwegian Elkhound, village dog Slovakia, and village dog Slavic.

Genetic dimensions · CanVAS atlas

What the genome says about Wire Fox Terrier

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

Dogs in the Atlas
10Founders
10 from Spatola
Genetic diversity
0.24Tight
Mean heterozygosity across the breed. Too few dogs in this breed (<20) to rank.
Cluster structure
Single tight cluster
Intra-breed RMS distance: 10.31
Nearest genetic relatives
  1. Village Dog Nz Mid13.02
  2. Retriever Breed Unknown19.88
  3. Norwegian Elkhound20.68
  4. Village Dog Slovakia20.94
  5. Village Dog Slavic21.44
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
IGF115%
HMGA20%
SMAD295%
LCORL100%
STC20%
ADAMTS1715%
Leg length
FGF4·CFA18100%
FGF4·CFA12100%
Coat
RSPO20%
FGF580%
KRT7180%
MC1R95%
Ear set
MSRB315%
Skull shape
BMP35%
SMOC285%
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Sources: CanVAS (Brundage 2026) · CanVAS dimensions data