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Cosmic medallion portrait of PFZ40B12_PFZ40B12, a German Shepherd
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.

PFZ40B12_PFZ40B12

PFZ40B12_PFZ40B12 is a German Shepherd from the Shannon research cohort. One of 14,478 dogs who built the atlas.

See PFZ40B12_PFZ40B12 in the atlas
About PFZ40B12_PFZ40B12

PFZ40B12_PFZ40B12 sits at the edge of the German Shepherd cluster but still well within it.

  • 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.
PFZ40B12_PFZ40B12's nearest neighbors

The five dogs in the atlas whose genomes sit closest to PFZ40B12_PFZ40B12's. Click any of them to keep exploring.

  1. PFZ39G11_PFZ39G11 German Shepherd 17.27
  2. PFZ40H06_PFZ40H06 German Shepherd 17.47
  3. PFZ40F07_PFZ40F07 German Shepherd 18.45
  4. PFZ41C04_PFZ41C04 German Shepherd 18.47
  5. PFZ40A07_PFZ40A07 German Shepherd 18.52
PFZ40B12_PFZ40B12's breed

PFZ40B12_PFZ40B12 sits in the German Shepherd 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. German Shepherd 88%
  2. Labrador Retriever 7%
  3. Golden Retriever 5%
Source

From the CanVAS (Shannon cohort) . Breed-page reference: German Shepherd.

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 A/A
STC2 A/A
ADAMTS17 A/A
Leg length
FGF4·CFA18 T/C
FGF4·CFA12 C/C
Coat
RSPO2 T/T
FGF5 T/T
KRT71 C/C
MC1R T/T
Ear set
MSRB3 G/A
Skull shape
BMP3 T/T
SMOC2 A/A
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 7.044
y 4.061
z -2.170
PCA-256 distance from breed centroid
20.86
Outlier percentile in breed
52
lower = more typical
Top-3 principal components by |z|

The 3 PCs on which PFZ40B12_PFZ40B12 scores most extreme, with the 3 highest-loading SNPs on each. Foundation for the future genome-ring visualization.

PC5 z = 3.56
  • chr1:24,578,804 loading 0.0240
  • chr2:19,906,795 loading 0.0230
  • chr13:51,091,794 loading 0.0227
PC7 z = -2.78
  • chr17:45,883,815 loading 0.0290
  • chr17:6,654,333 loading 0.0283
  • chr34:27,183,296 loading 0.0282
PC161 z = 2.59
  • chr25:6,699,887 loading 0.0385
  • chr8:38,372,734 loading -0.0369
  • chr15:23,258,994 loading -0.0343
Ancestry reconstruction error: 0.30
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