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Cosmic medallion portrait of NELK_Elk_0GT137, 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_0GT137

NELK_Elk_0GT137 is a Norwegian Elkhound from the Spatola research cohort. One of 14,478 dogs who built the atlas.

See NELK_Elk_0GT137 in the atlas
About NELK_Elk_0GT137

NELK_Elk_0GT137 is a notable Norwegian Elkhound - distinctive within the breed.

  • Predicted large by the six body-size genes the atlas reads (IGF1, HMGA2, SMAD2, LCORL, STC2, ADAMTS17).
  • Standard leg length. No chondrodysplasia retrogene variant.
  • Wire-coat furnishings - the eyebrow + beard variant at RSPO2.
NELK_Elk_0GT137's nearest neighbors

The five dogs in the atlas whose genomes sit closest to NELK_Elk_0GT137's. Click any of them to keep exploring.

  1. NELK_Elk_0GT134 Norwegian Elkhound 14.46
  2. NELK_Elk_0GT130 Norwegian Elkhound 19.00
  3. PULI_PULI_14F06 Puli 23.14
  4. ICES_ICES_21B07 Icelandic Sheepdog 23.84
  5. ICES_ICES_Z4E02 Icelandic Sheepdog 24.02
NELK_Elk_0GT137's breed

NELK_Elk_0GT137 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 59%
  2. Golden Retriever 41%
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 A/A
HMGA2 C/C
SMAD2 A/G
LCORL G/G
STC2 C/C
ADAMTS17 A/A
Leg length
FGF4·CFA18 C/C
FGF4·CFA12 C/C
Coat
RSPO2 T/T
FGF5 T/C
KRT71 C/C
MC1R T/T
Ear set
MSRB3 G/G
Skull shape
BMP3 C/T
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 -3.532
y 5.265
z 4.794
PCA-256 distance from breed centroid
16.70
Outlier percentile in breed
80
lower = more typical
Top-3 principal components by |z|

The 3 PCs on which NELK_Elk_0GT137 scores most extreme, with the 3 highest-loading SNPs on each. Foundation for the future genome-ring visualization.

PC214 z = 3.10
  • chr22:26,809,841 loading 0.0329
  • chr13:7,517,248 loading -0.0323
  • chr26:11,829,785 loading 0.0322
PC10 z = -2.32
  • chr13:43,330,325 loading 0.0255
  • chr17:50,562,684 loading 0.0245
  • chr19:34,146,978 loading 0.0244
PC197 z = 2.29
  • chr7:40,629,884 loading 0.0367
  • chr7:40,535,333 loading 0.0324
  • chr18:50,696,547 loading 0.0323
Ancestry reconstruction error: 0.34
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