Village Dog Nz North
10 Village Dog Nz Norths in the atlas. Every number on this page has a source.
10 Village Dog Nz Norths in the Sniff Atlas. Population-genetic snapshot, Mendelian carrier frequencies from Donner 2023, and the data substrate's release version, sample sizes, and evidence tier on every claim.
In the atlas, the village dog Nz North clusters consistently as village dog Nz North (100% of the 10 dogs here). Genetic diversity is high (mean heterozygosity 0.3951), reflecting either a mixed-breed cluster or breeds with broad genetic backgrounds. At the trait loci, LCORL runs lower than average (0% here vs 83%); MC1R runs higher than the atlas average (100% here vs 62%).
Mean heterozygosity is 0.395, notably high, indicates broad genetic background. High breed predictability score (2.02), individual dogs of this breed reliably cluster together genetically. Only 10 dogs of this breed in the atlas, modestly sampled.
Closest genetic neighbors in the atlas: village dog Nz South, Foxhound, Chinese Crested, Peruvian Inca Orchid, and American Hairless Terrier.
What the genome says about Village Dog Nz North
Computed from the 18,477 research dogs in the Atlas.
- Village Dog Nz South2.77
- Foxhound3.60
- Chinese Crested3.83
- Peruvian Inca Orchid4.12
- American Hairless Terrier4.23
Frequency of the alternate allele in this breed at each locus's representative SNP.
| IGF1 | – |
| HMGA2 | 55% |
| SMAD2 | 85% |
| LCORL | 0% |
| STC2 | 50% |
| ADAMTS17 | 50% |
| FGF4·CFA18 | 80% |
| FGF4·CFA12 | 85% |
| RSPO2 | – |
| FGF5 | 50% |
| KRT71 | 75% |
| MC1R | 100% |
| MSRB3 | – |
| BMP3 | – |
| SMOC2 | 60% |
What does the genome say about how a Village Dog Nz North looks?
Village Dog Nz Norths look the way they do because of a small set of fixed and near-fixed morphology genes that, taken together, define the visible breed. Each translation below pairs the gene with the trait an owner actually sees, the breed's allele frequency at that locus, and a one-clause causal phrase.
Size and build
IGF1 is at 0% for the small-body allele, leaving the breed firmly in the larger end of the dog body-size spectrum.
HMGA2 sits at 55%. HMGA2 is a chromosome-10 size locus that acts together with IGF1, and intermediate frequencies reflect partial commitment to the dominant size variant.
SMAD2 is near-fixed at 85%, a chromosome-7 height locus differentiating small from giant breeds.
LCORL is at 0%, the NCAPG/LCORL height locus running against the breed's body-size profile here.
STC2 sits at 50%.
ADAMTS17 sits at 50%. ADAMTS17 is a body-size locus also linked to lens disorders.
Leg length
The FGF4 retrogene on chromosome 18 sits at 80%. This is the leg-length variant. The intermediate frequency means some dogs in this breed carry the short-legged allele and some do not.
The FGF4 retrogene on chromosome 12 is near-fixed at 85%, the chondrodystrophic variant associated with intervertebral disc disease risk in breeds that carry it.
Coat type, length, and color
RSPO2 is at 0% for the furnishings allele. The breed does not carry the eyebrows-and-mustache pattern of Wheatens, Schnauzers, or wire-haired terriers.
FGF5 sits at 50% for the long-coat variant. Coat length is influenced by other loci as well, so intermediate FGF5 frequencies do not always correspond to intermediate visible coat lengths.
KRT71 sits at 75% for the wavy/curly variant. Coat curl varies across individuals at this intermediate frequency, and visible expression is also influenced by modifier loci.
MC1R is at 100% at the representative SNP. MC1R controls the switch between red-to-gold and black-to-brown pigment, with the e/e homozygous genotype producing the gold-to-red spectrum by blocking eumelanin (black and brown pigment).
Ears
MSRB3 is at 0% for the drop-ear allele, keeping the breed's ears upright and prick.
Skull shape
BMP3 is at 0%, keeping the breed in the dolichocephalic, long-headed form.
SMOC2 sits at 60%, contributing to the breed's moderate head shape.
Where every number on this page came from.
This page draws on three primary data sources. Carrier frequencies for the Mendelian section come from Donner et al. 2023 (CC-BY-4.0). We grade these data at evidence Limited because the cohort is a direct-to-consumer ascertainment, which biases toward owners who chose to test their dogs. The panel also uses tag-SNP proxies for some variants rather than direct causal-variant assays. Limited is a study-design grade, not a quality grade: the Donner cohort is the largest open canine-genotype dataset in existence and we are grateful for it. We rate the confounding MEDIUM.
Population-genetic dimensions (heterozygosity, intra-breed PCA distance, nearest neighbors, trait-locus frequencies) come from CanVAS (Brundage 2026), harmonized through the Sniff Atlas. The exact release date and verification commit are pinned at the bottom of the page so a researcher can trace a number back to a specific snapshot. The disease-gene-variant graph comes from OMIA (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals; Nicholas, Tammen, and the Sydney Informatics Hub at the Sydney School of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney; retrieved April 2026, DOI 10.25910/2AMR-PV70).
What this page does not yet have. Inheritance modes and per-disease penetrance evidence from Donner 2023 are now in the structured data for every variant the panel covers. Mondo, OMIM, Ensembl, and HGNC cross-references on gene pages remain pending — they arrive in December 2026 alongside the imputed 9.67M-variant CanVAS dataset via the OMIA SQL dump absorption. Until then, gene IDs carry NCBI Gene and OMIA phene URLs only; the wider human-homolog and disease-ontology cross-reference set fills in with that release.
How to cite this page. The computed dimensions on this page are derived from the open Sniff Atlas v1.0.1 (Gehring 2026, doi:10.5281/zenodo.20566358, CC-BY 4.0). Full citation formats including BibTeX, RIS, and CITATION.cff at sniff.world/cite.
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- Donner J, Anderson H, Davison S, et al. (2023). Frequency and distribution of 152 genetic disease variants in over 1,000,000 mixed-breed and purebred dogs. PLOS Genetics 19(2):e1010651. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1010651
- Brundage J, et al. (2026). CanVAS: a harmonized canine variant atlas. bioRxiv. doi:10.64898/2026.04.13.718238
- Nicholas, F.W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2026). Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. The University of Sydney. https://omia.org. doi:10.25910/2AMR-PV70 (retrieved April 2026).