Skip to main content
snıff
CanVAS Spatola · Founder
Cosmic medallion portrait of MALT_MALT_37B01, 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_37B01

MALT_MALT_37B01 is a Maltese from the Spatola research cohort. One of 14,478 dogs who built the atlas.

See MALT_MALT_37B01 in the atlas
About MALT_MALT_37B01

MALT_MALT_37B01 is a strong genetic outlier within the Maltese cluster - among the most distinctive examples of their breed.

  • Predicted giant 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.
  • Smooth coat. No wire-furnishings variant at RSPO2.
MALT_MALT_37B01's nearest neighbors

The five dogs in the atlas whose genomes sit closest to MALT_MALT_37B01's. Click any of them to keep exploring.

  1. MALT_MALT_37H01 Maltese 15.12
  2. MALT_MALT_37D01 Maltese 15.98
  3. MALT_MALT_37G01 Maltese 16.13
  4. MALT_MALT_37E01 Maltese 17.37
  5. MALT_MALT_37C01 Maltese 17.61
MALT_MALT_37B01's breed

MALT_MALT_37B01 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 47%
  2. Labrador Retriever 32%
  3. Golden Retriever 22%
Source

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

Full genotype detail
click to expand

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/C
HMGA2 C/C
SMAD2 A/G
LCORL G/G
STC2 C/C
ADAMTS17 A/A
Leg length
FGF4·CFA18 T/T
FGF4·CFA12 C/C
Coat
RSPO2 C/C
FGF5 C/C
KRT71 C/C
MC1R C/C
Ear set
MSRB3 G/G
Skull shape
BMP3 C/C
SMOC2 G/G
Technical details
click to expand

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 -3.579
y 5.715
z 4.278
PCA-256 distance from breed centroid
78.03
Outlier percentile in breed
92
lower = more typical
Top-3 principal components by |z|

The 3 PCs on which MALT_MALT_37B01 scores most extreme, with the 3 highest-loading SNPs on each. Foundation for the future genome-ring visualization.

PC250 z = 3.66
  • chr9:17,840,166 loading 0.0300
  • chr9:50,441,577 loading 0.0297
  • chr15:28,843,971 loading -0.0296
PC224 z = 2.33
  • chr1:60,626,811 loading 0.0345
  • chr1:60,550,367 loading 0.0321
  • chr7:17,102,947 loading 0.0300
PC194 z = -2.26
  • chr25:31,475,309 loading 0.0351
  • chr3:6,392,552 loading 0.0298
  • chr25:27,400,046 loading 0.0293
Ancestry reconstruction error: 0.38
Back to the Atlas →