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Cosmic medallion portrait of NELK_Elk_0GT134, a Norwegian Elkhound
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.

NELK_Elk_0GT134

NELK_Elk_0GT134 is a Norwegian Elkhound from the Spatola research cohort. One of 14,478 dogs who built the atlas.

See NELK_Elk_0GT134 in the atlas
About NELK_Elk_0GT134

NELK_Elk_0GT134 is a notable Norwegian Elkhound - distinctive within the breed.

  • Predicted giant by the six body-size genes the atlas reads (IGF1, HMGA2, SMAD2, LCORL, STC2, ADAMTS17).
  • Carries one copy of the FGF4 chondrodysplasia retrogene.
  • Wire-coat furnishings - the eyebrow + beard variant at RSPO2.
NELK_Elk_0GT134's nearest neighbors

The five dogs in the atlas whose genomes sit closest to NELK_Elk_0GT134's. Click any of them to keep exploring.

  1. NELK_Elk_0GT137 Norwegian Elkhound 14.46
  2. NELK_Elk_0GT130 Norwegian Elkhound 19.87
  3. NELK_Elk_0GT136 Norwegian Elkhound 24.35
  4. SLOV_4SL Village Dog Slovakia 24.42
  5. PULI_PULI_14F06 Puli 24.61
NELK_Elk_0GT134's breed

NELK_Elk_0GT134 sits in the Labrador Retriever cluster, with genome overlap to 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. Labrador Retriever 58%
  2. Golden Retriever 42%
Source

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

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 G/G
LCORL G/G
STC2 C/C
ADAMTS17 A/A
Leg length
FGF4·CFA18 C/C
FGF4·CFA12 T/C
Coat
RSPO2 T/T
FGF5 C/C
KRT71 C/C
MC1R T/T
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 -3.405
y 5.141
z 4.805
PCA-256 distance from breed centroid
17.04
Outlier percentile in breed
80
lower = more typical
Top-3 principal components by |z|

The 3 PCs on which NELK_Elk_0GT134 scores most extreme, with the 3 highest-loading SNPs on each. Foundation for the future genome-ring visualization.

PC242 z = -3.70
  • chr13:35,426,269 loading 0.0319
  • chr12:6,934,625 loading -0.0307
  • chr31:14,181,674 loading 0.0294
PC214 z = 2.79
  • chr22:26,809,841 loading 0.0329
  • chr13:7,517,248 loading -0.0323
  • chr26:11,829,785 loading 0.0322
PC31 z = -2.18
  • chr4:74,176,809 loading 0.0309
  • chr3:63,796,388 loading 0.0306
  • chr7:9,211,951 loading 0.0296
Ancestry reconstruction error: 0.35
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