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Cosmic medallion portrait of CHOW_CHOW_28880, a Chow Chow
AI portrait
About this portrait

This portrait was algorithmically built from this dog's genome: their genotype at 8 morphology loci (coat length, curl, color, ear set, body size, head shape, skull, furnishings) plus their position within the 14,478-dog atlas. The same dog always reproduces the same portrait. A different dog with different alleles gets a different portrait.

CHOW_CHOW_28880

CHOW_CHOW_28880 is a Chow Chow from the Spatola research cohort. One of 14,478 dogs who built the atlas.

See CHOW_CHOW_28880 in the atlas
About CHOW_CHOW_28880

CHOW_CHOW_28880 sits at the edge of the Chow Chow cluster but still well within it.

  • Predicted medium by the six body-size genes the atlas reads (IGF1, HMGA2, SMAD2, LCORL, STC2, ADAMTS17).
  • Carries both copies of the FGF4 chondrodysplasia retrogene - the short-leg variant in Dachshund, Pembroke Corgi, Basset Hound.
CHOW_CHOW_28880's nearest neighbors

The five dogs in the atlas whose genomes sit closest to CHOW_CHOW_28880's. Click any of them to keep exploring.

  1. CHOW_CHOW_28885 Chow Chow 10.27
  2. CHOW_CHOW_22802 Chow Chow 10.52
  3. CHOW_CHOW_28872 Chow Chow 10.56
  4. CHOW_CHOW_28874 Chow Chow 10.69
  5. CHOW_CHOW_13802 Chow Chow 11.21
CHOW_CHOW_28880's breed

CHOW_CHOW_28880 sits firmly in 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.

  1. Golden Retriever 100%
Source

From the CanVAS (Spatola cohort) . Breed-page reference: Chow Chow.

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
HMGA2 C/C
SMAD2 G/G
LCORL G/G
STC2 C/A
ADAMTS17 G/A
Leg length
FGF4·CFA18 T/C
FGF4·CFA12 T/T
Coat
RSPO2
FGF5 C/C
KRT71 C/C
MC1R C/C
Ear set
MSRB3
Skull shape
BMP3
SMOC2 A/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 0.064
y -1.903
z 2.625
PCA-256 distance from breed centroid
20.34
Outlier percentile in breed
53
lower = more typical
Top-3 principal components by |z|

The 3 PCs on which CHOW_CHOW_28880 scores most extreme, with the 3 highest-loading SNPs on each. Foundation for the future genome-ring visualization.

PC46 z = 4.45
  • chr22:1,996,400 loading 0.0303
  • chr22:2,231,766 loading 0.0280
  • chr22:3,165,486 loading 0.0275
PC50 z = 3.53
  • chr22:2,473,315 loading 0.0334
  • chr22:1,969,643 loading -0.0326
  • chr4:32,946,669 loading -0.0320
PC11 z = 2.71
  • chr6:60,987,558 loading 0.0302
  • chr18:25,790,852 loading 0.0293
  • chr14:14,074,192 loading -0.0293
Ancestry reconstruction error: 0.42