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Cosmic medallion portrait of MSNZ_MSNZ_12928, a Village Dog Nz Mid
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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.

MSNZ_MSNZ_12928

MSNZ_MSNZ_12928 is labelled Village Dog Nz Mid in the Spatola cohort - a catch-all CanVAS label, not a literal ancestry call. One of 14,478 dogs who built the atlas.

See MSNZ_MSNZ_12928 in the atlas
About MSNZ_MSNZ_12928

MSNZ_MSNZ_12928 is a strong genetic outlier within the Village Dog Nz Mid cluster - among the most distinctive examples of their breed.

  • 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.
  • Smooth coat. No wire-furnishings variant at RSPO2.
MSNZ_MSNZ_12928's nearest neighbors

The five dogs in the atlas whose genomes sit closest to MSNZ_MSNZ_12928's. Click any of them to keep exploring.

  1. MSNZ_MSNZ_12930 Village Dog Nz Mid 11.79
  2. MSNZ_MSNZ_12929 Village Dog Nz Mid 14.56
  3. PULI_PULI_14E05 Puli 41.44
  4. ICES_ICES_21B07 Icelandic Sheepdog 42.72
  5. SLAV_SLAV_16 Village Dog Slavic 42.78
MSNZ_MSNZ_12928's breed

MSNZ_MSNZ_12928's genome decomposes mostly into Miniature Schnauzer, with additional weight on Labrador Retriever, and Golden Retriever.

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. Miniature Schnauzer 53%
  2. Labrador Retriever 26%
  3. Golden Retriever 21%
Source

From the CanVAS (Spatola cohort) . Breed-page reference: Village Dog Nz Mid.

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/C
HMGA2 C/C
SMAD2 A/G
LCORL A/G
STC2 A/A
ADAMTS17 G/G
Leg length
FGF4·CFA18 C/C
FGF4·CFA12 T/T
Coat
RSPO2 C/C
FGF5 C/C
KRT71 C/C
MC1R C/C
Ear set
MSRB3 G/G
Skull shape
BMP3 C/C
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 -3.781
y 5.271
z 4.736
PCA-256 distance from breed centroid
37.81
Outlier percentile in breed
100
lower = more typical
Top-3 principal components by |z|

The 3 PCs on which MSNZ_MSNZ_12928 scores most extreme, with the 3 highest-loading SNPs on each. Foundation for the future genome-ring visualization.

PC245 z = -5.60
  • chr5:79,585,745 loading 0.0313
  • chr14:5,105,246 loading 0.0300
  • chr24:4,166,647 loading -0.0289
PC247 z = -5.54
  • chr3:7,959,527 loading 0.0294
  • chr16:43,038,278 loading -0.0293
  • chr19:17,213,086 loading 0.0288
PC214 z = 5.06
  • chr22:26,809,841 loading 0.0329
  • chr13:7,517,248 loading -0.0323
  • chr26:11,829,785 loading 0.0322
Ancestry reconstruction error: 0.50
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