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Cosmic medallion portrait of NELK_NELK_28504, 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_NELK_28504

NELK_NELK_28504 is a Norwegian Elkhound from the Spatola research cohort. One of 14,478 dogs who built the atlas.

See NELK_NELK_28504 in the atlas
About NELK_NELK_28504

NELK_NELK_28504 is a strong genetic outlier within the Norwegian Elkhound cluster - among the most distinctive examples of their breed.

  • Predicted small by the six body-size genes the atlas reads (IGF1, HMGA2, SMAD2, LCORL, STC2, ADAMTS17).
  • Standard leg length. No chondrodysplasia retrogene variant.
NELK_NELK_28504's nearest neighbors

The five dogs in the atlas whose genomes sit closest to NELK_NELK_28504's. Click any of them to keep exploring.

  1. PULI_PULI_27429 Puli 19.39
  2. PUMI_PUMI_29698 Pumi 19.61
  3. PUMI_PUMI_29695 Pumi 19.82
  4. PULI_PULI_27129 Puli 20.36
  5. PUMI_PUMI_29696 Pumi 20.39
NELK_NELK_28504's breed

NELK_NELK_28504 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 68%
  2. Golden Retriever 32%
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 –
HMGA2 C/C
SMAD2 A/G
LCORL G/G
STC2 –
ADAMTS17 –
Leg length
FGF4·CFA18 C/C
FGF4·CFA12 C/C
Coat
RSPO2 –
FGF5 C/C
KRT71 T/T
MC1R T/T
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 0.524
y -0.769
z 3.662
PCA-256 distance from breed centroid
39.72
Outlier percentile in breed
90
lower = more typical
Top-3 principal components by |z|

The 3 PCs on which NELK_NELK_28504 scores most extreme, with the 3 highest-loading SNPs on each. Foundation for the future genome-ring visualization.

PC201 z = -1.92
  • chr28:5,497,677 loading 0.0416
  • chr28:5,428,661 loading 0.0337
  • chr20:7,134,018 loading 0.0323
PC168 z = -1.89
  • chr13:7,517,248 loading 0.0370
  • chr13:1,243,516 loading -0.0357
  • chr3:3,383,464 loading 0.0349
PC246 z = 1.84
  • chr4:78,506,139 loading 0.0305
  • chr26:20,960,217 loading -0.0303
  • chr22:28,657,814 loading -0.0289
Ancestry reconstruction error: 0.49
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