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TAJ_TAJ_18TDZ

TAJ_TAJ_18TDZ is labelled Village Dog Tajikistan in the Spatola cohort - a catch-all CanVAS label, not a literal ancestry call. One of 14,478 dogs who built the atlas.

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About this name and portrait

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About TAJ_TAJ_18TDZ

TAJ_TAJ_18TDZ sits at the edge of the Village Dog Tajikistan cluster but still well within it.

Predicted giant 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.
Carrier of the RSPO2 wire-coat variant (single copy).

TAJ_TAJ_18TDZ's nearest neighbors

The five dogs in the atlas whose genomes sit closest to TAJ_TAJ_18TDZ's. Click any of them to keep exploring.

TAJ_TAJ_18TDZ's breed

TAJ_TAJ_18TDZ'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.

Labrador Retriever 51%
Golden Retriever 49%

Source

From the CanVAS (Spatola cohort) . Breed-page reference: Village Dog Tajikistan.

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/T
SMAD2	G/G
LCORL	A/G
STC2	C/A
ADAMTS17	G/A

Leg length

FGF4·CFA18	T/T
FGF4·CFA12	C/C

Coat

RSPO2	C/T
FGF5	C/C
KRT71	C/C
MC1R	T/C

Ear set

MSRB3

G/A

Skull shape

BMP3	C/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 -3.666
y 6.076
z 5.863

PCA-256 distance from breed centroid

25.95

Outlier percentile in breed

lower = more typical

Top-3 principal components by |z|

The 3 PCs on which TAJ_TAJ_18TDZ scores most extreme, with the 3 highest-loading SNPs on each. Foundation for the future genome-ring visualization.

PC46 z = 4.16

chr22:1,996,400 loading 0.0303
chr22:2,231,766 loading 0.0280
chr22:3,165,486 loading 0.0275

PC31 z = -2.62

chr4:74,176,809 loading 0.0309
chr3:63,796,388 loading 0.0306
chr7:9,211,951 loading 0.0296

PC50 z = 2.51

chr22:2,473,315 loading 0.0334
chr22:1,969,643 loading -0.0326
chr4:32,946,669 loading -0.0320

Ancestry reconstruction error: 0.30

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