What changed
Every change to a page a reader sees, newest first. Corrections are listed beside new work, because a figure is only worth trusting if the last wrong one was fixed in the open. To report something wrong, use the corrections page.
- Correction
The per-breed variant figure is an allele frequency, and every page now says so
On every breed page and every disease page, the figure from the Donner 2023 screening panel was labeled a carrier frequency. It is an allele frequency: of the gene copies tested, the share that carry the variant. Every dog carries two copies, so it is not the share of dogs, and for a recessive variant the share of dogs carrying at least one copy is higher than this figure. Every label, sentence, chart and data description now calls it an allele frequency, the glossary entry explains what it counts, and a build check refuses the old label on any page from now on.
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Two lifespans on the Rottweiler page explain themselves
The page showed one figure at the top and a different one a screen below for what read as the same question. The top figure is life expectancy; the measured section gives median age at death among dogs that died, from a different study. Each now names its measure and its study, side by side.
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Breed pages open with the answers an owner came for
A breed page now starts with lifespan, the tested variant with the highest allele frequency, and how many dogs stand behind the page, each with its source. Carrier variants, plain-terms condition guidance, feeding and open questions follow. Population genetics, model-organism links and the full condition list fold into one section for researchers. A navigator shows where you are on long pages.
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What a page says about a condition is written once, with its source
Guidance about a condition now comes from one record that rests on a sentence quoted from the curated source or on a cataloged paper, and the same guidance renders on the breed page and the disease page. Two tested markers the curated source disputes now read "marker disputed" and carry the source's own words instead of advice built on them.
- Correction
A public dog page shows what the form promised, and no more
The add-a-dog form promised that a public page shows name, photo and breed. Pages were also showing birth year, sex, weight, diet and location. The default now matches the promise: those fields stay off a public page until the owner turns each one on. Pages created before this date changed too.
- Correction
Trait frequencies removed until a marker shows it tracks its trait
Fifteen single-position markers had been used to show coat, size and body-shape frequencies by breed. Tested against breeds that visibly have each trait and breeds that lack it, none of them tracked its trait, and two ran backwards. Nothing renders from them now. A marker returns when it passes that test.
- Correction
Heartworm prevention is safe for a dog with the MDR1 variant at the label dose
Eight breed pages said a dog with the MDR1 variant cannot take ivermectin-based heartworm prevention. The primary source says the opposite: at the label dose, every approved heartworm preventive is safe even for a dog with two copies, and the danger is high doses of ivermectin and related drugs. Twenty-four sentences were corrected and cited, and a build check now refuses a parasite-drug warning that names no dose.
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No page shows a model's pathogenicity score
Sniff shows the variant classifications that curated sources publish and cites them. It does not assign pathogenicity with a model of its own, and no public page presents a model score any more. Splice predictions computed with a published third-party model are labeled as that model's output, with a note that it has not been validated in dogs.
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The Rottweiler page is built from the published literature, question by question
The Rottweiler page carries a frame of nineteen questions an owner or a vet asks about a breed. Each is answered with its figure, its cohort and its paper; held, with the source named, when the source does not support a figure; or left open with the name of who holds the data nobody has read in yet. Life expectancy, body weight, hip and elbow results, leading causes of death and breed recognition are answered today.
- Correction
The atlas dataset is described as what it holds
The published catalogue's description had narrowed it to the protein-coding part of the genome. Most of what it holds lies outside those regions. The description now says genome-wide, and the page that explains the dataset says what each file contains.