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Cosmic medallion portrait of PFZ44C12_PFZ44C12, a West Highland White Terrier
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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.

PFZ44C12_PFZ44C12

PFZ44C12_PFZ44C12 is a West Highland White Terrier from the Hayward2016 research cohort. One of 14,478 dogs who built the atlas.

See PFZ44C12_PFZ44C12 in the atlas
About PFZ44C12_PFZ44C12

PFZ44C12_PFZ44C12 is a strong genetic outlier within the West Highland White Terrier 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).
  • Carries both copies of the FGF4 chondrodysplasia retrogene - the short-leg variant in Dachshund, Pembroke Corgi, Basset Hound.
  • Wire-coat furnishings - the eyebrow + beard variant at RSPO2.
PFZ44C12_PFZ44C12's nearest neighbors

The five dogs in the atlas whose genomes sit closest to PFZ44C12_PFZ44C12's. Click any of them to keep exploring.

  1. PFZ32B10_PFZ32B10 Maltese 36.68
  2. PFZ13C03_PFZ13C03 Havanese 37.56
  3. PFZ29F05_PFZ29F05 Maltese 38.23
  4. PFZ11C03_PFZ11C03 Cairn Terrier 38.77
  5. PFZ9E01_PFZ9E01 West Highland White Terrier 39.02
PFZ44C12_PFZ44C12's breed

PFZ44C12_PFZ44C12 sits in the West Highland White Terrier cluster, with genome overlap to Maltese, 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. West Highland White Terrier 49%
  2. Maltese 45%
  3. Golden Retriever 6%
Source

From the CanVAS (Hayward2016 cohort) . Breed-page reference: West Highland White Terrier.

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/T
SMAD2 A/A
LCORL G/G
STC2 A/A
ADAMTS17 G/A
Leg length
FGF4·CFA18 T/T
FGF4·CFA12 C/C
Coat
RSPO2 T/T
FGF5 T/C
KRT71 C/C
MC1R C/C
Ear set
MSRB3 A/A
Skull shape
BMP3 C/T
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 4.497
y 2.464
z 4.238
PCA-256 distance from breed centroid
36.20
Outlier percentile in breed
97
lower = more typical
Top-3 principal components by |z|

The 3 PCs on which PFZ44C12_PFZ44C12 scores most extreme, with the 3 highest-loading SNPs on each. Foundation for the future genome-ring visualization.

PC122 z = 4.26
  • chr1:69,449,779 loading 0.0431
  • chr1:69,785,342 loading 0.0329
  • chr10:4,740,874 loading 0.0326
PC127 z = 3.92
  • chr9:13,194,225 loading 0.0383
  • chr9:12,031,144 loading 0.0374
  • chr9:11,905,599 loading 0.0372
PC30 z = -3.30
  • chr22:1,635,288 loading 0.0319
  • chr13:9,677,426 loading 0.0297
  • chr7:41,071,296 loading 0.0289
Ancestry reconstruction error: 0.28
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