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Cosmic medallion portrait of MALT_MALT_27446, a Maltese
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.

MALT_MALT_27446

MALT_MALT_27446 is a Maltese from the Spatola research cohort. One of 14,478 dogs who built the atlas.

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About MALT_MALT_27446

MALT_MALT_27446 is a notable Maltese - distinctive within the breed.

  • Predicted small 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.
MALT_MALT_27446's nearest neighbors

The five dogs in the atlas whose genomes sit closest to MALT_MALT_27446's. Click any of them to keep exploring.

  1. MALT_MALT_27447 Maltese 12.47
  2. HAVA_HAVA_27930 Havanese 27.29
  3. HAVA_HAVA_07533 Havanese 28.51
  4. HAVA_HAVA_27929 Havanese 29.26
  5. HAVA_HAVA_07424 Havanese 30.70
MALT_MALT_27446's breed

MALT_MALT_27446 sits in the Maltese cluster, with genome overlap to Labrador Retriever, and Golden Retriever - sister breeds nearby in the atlas.

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. Maltese 82%
  2. Labrador Retriever 10%
  3. Golden Retriever 8%
Source

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

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 A/G
LCORL G/G
STC2 –
ADAMTS17 G/A
Leg length
FGF4·CFA18 T/T
FGF4·CFA12 C/C
Coat
RSPO2 –
FGF5 C/C
KRT71 C/C
MC1R T/C
Ear set
MSRB3 –
Skull shape
BMP3 –
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 -0.013
y -0.872
z 3.613
PCA-256 distance from breed centroid
34.59
Outlier percentile in breed
89
lower = more typical
Top-3 principal components by |z|

The 3 PCs on which MALT_MALT_27446 scores most extreme, with the 3 highest-loading SNPs on each. Foundation for the future genome-ring visualization.

PC30 z = -4.68
  • chr22:1,635,288 loading 0.0319
  • chr13:9,677,426 loading 0.0297
  • chr7:41,071,296 loading 0.0289
PC34 z = 3.44
  • chr12:32,936,523 loading 0.0310
  • chr24:6,196,307 loading 0.0310
  • chr24:10,982,162 loading 0.0302
PC231 z = -2.19
  • chr23:12,238,858 loading 0.0365
  • chr30:3,110,542 loading 0.0349
  • chr26:5,761,213 loading -0.0320
Ancestry reconstruction error: 0.33
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