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8278_8278

8278_8278 is labelled Village Dog Us Alaska in the Hayward2016 cohort - a catch-all CanVAS label, not a literal ancestry call. One of 14,478 dogs who built the atlas.

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About this name and portrait

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About 8278_8278

8278_8278 sits near the center of the Village Dog Us Alaska cluster - genetically very typical for the breed.

Predicted giant by the six body-size genes the atlas reads (IGF1, HMGA2, SMAD2, LCORL, STC2, ADAMTS17).
Standard leg length. No chondrodysplasia retrogene variant.
Smooth coat. No wire-furnishings variant at RSPO2.

8278_8278's nearest neighbors

The five dogs in the atlas whose genomes sit closest to 8278_8278's. Click any of them to keep exploring.

8278_8278's breed

8278_8278 pulls strongly toward the Golden Retriever cluster.

Breed similarity from non-negative least squares against 91 breed centroids in PCA-256 space, corrected for atlas sample-size imbalance. Without correction, Goldens (22% of the atlas) leak into every dog's raw NNLS breakdown; with it, the bias falls out. Raw fractions stay in the dataset for re-derivation. Methodology.

Golden Retriever 100%

Source

From the CanVAS (Hayward2016 cohort) . Breed-page reference: Village Dog Us Alaska.

Full genotype detail

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The actual allele call at each locus's representative SNP for this dog. Each gene name links to its page where you can see the per-breed frequency table and the direction of effect.

Body size

IGF1	C/A
HMGA2	T/T
SMAD2	G/G
LCORL	G/G
STC2	C/A
ADAMTS17	G/A

Leg length

FGF4·CFA18	C/C
FGF4·CFA12	C/C

Coat

RSPO2	C/C
FGF5	C/C
KRT71	C/C
MC1R	C/C

Ear set

MSRB3

A/A

Skull shape

BMP3	C/T
SMOC2	G/G

Technical details

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The numbers behind the placement. Useful for researchers reproducing the math or debugging an unexpected position; not interesting to most readers.

UMAP-3D position

x 4.077
y 3.136
z 0.871

PCA-256 distance from breed centroid

12.47

Outlier percentile in breed

lower = more typical

Top-3 principal components by |z|

The 3 PCs on which 8278_8278 scores most extreme, with the 3 highest-loading SNPs on each. Foundation for the future genome-ring visualization.

PC50 z = -4.14

chr22:2,473,315 loading 0.0334
chr22:1,969,643 loading -0.0326
chr4:32,946,669 loading -0.0320

PC45 z = 3.27

chr21:49,887,138 loading 0.0323
chr14:48,394,398 loading -0.0308
chr32:37,683,789 loading -0.0274

PC48 z = 3.00

chr2:6,428,604 loading 0.0354
chr22:6,962,924 loading 0.0351
chr12:19,589,576 loading 0.0339

Ancestry reconstruction error: 0.43

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