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Cosmic medallion portrait of SA_1_SA_16AS, a Village Dog South Africa 1
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.

SA_1_SA_16AS

SA_1_SA_16AS is labelled Village Dog South Africa 1 in the Spatola cohort - a catch-all CanVAS label, not a literal ancestry call. One of 14,478 dogs who built the atlas.

See SA_1_SA_16AS in the atlas
About SA_1_SA_16AS

SA_1_SA_16AS sits at the edge of the Village Dog South Africa 1 cluster but still well within it.

  • Predicted large by the six body-size genes the atlas reads (IGF1, HMGA2, SMAD2, LCORL, STC2, ADAMTS17).
  • Carries one copy of the FGF4 chondrodysplasia retrogene.
  • Smooth coat. No wire-furnishings variant at RSPO2.
SA_1_SA_16AS's breed

SA_1_SA_16AS's genome decomposes mostly into Labrador Retriever, with additional weight on Golden Retriever.

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: Village Dog South Africa 1.

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 G/G
LCORL A/G
STC2 A/A
ADAMTS17 A/A
Leg length
FGF4·CFA18 T/C
FGF4·CFA12 C/C
Coat
RSPO2 C/C
FGF5 T/C
KRT71 T/T
MC1R C/C
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 -3.085
y 6.553
z 6.452
PCA-256 distance from breed centroid
14.86
Outlier percentile in breed
59
lower = more typical
Top-3 principal components by |z|

The 3 PCs on which SA_1_SA_16AS scores most extreme, with the 3 highest-loading SNPs on each. Foundation for the future genome-ring visualization.

PC46 z = 5.13
  • chr22:1,996,400 loading 0.0303
  • chr22:2,231,766 loading 0.0280
  • chr22:3,165,486 loading 0.0275
PC116 z = -4.61
  • chr21:8,227,069 loading 0.0376
  • chr16:47,900,123 loading 0.0333
  • chr1:24,270,460 loading 0.0312
PC107 z = -3.42
  • chr10:6,497,921 loading 0.0390
  • chr3:5,565,848 loading -0.0351
  • chr3:6,720,531 loading 0.0336
Ancestry reconstruction error: 0.50