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Hero 782 of 3,197 · GRLS Main Cohort

A Sequenced Founder from the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study, a multi-decade Morris Animal Foundation research project tracking the health and longevity of 3,000+ Golden Retrievers from puppyhood through their full lives.

How this Hero helps the atlas

Alone in this corner of the atlas so far

Dogs in sparse regions carry outsized weight. This Golden Retriever's data helps the atlas learn about a part of canine genetic space with limited coverage, local density places this dog in the bottom 3 percent across the 14,478-dog CanVAS release.

Atlas profile
Uniqueness
66th
percentile across 18,477 dogs
Position in breed
36th
percentile from breed centroid
Nearest-100 distance
36.78
mean PCA-256 Euclidean
Closest neighbors in the atlas
  1. PFZ8B07_PFZ8B07 31.90
  2. Oldies_grlsad82acc7 33.47
  3. GRLS_grls83VQG44 34.01
  4. GRLS_grlsYI05S9OO 34.50
  5. PFZ5D07_PFZ5D07 34.51
Is this your dog?

Is this your dog? If you were part of the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study, you can claim this page and give your Hero their real name.

The claim flow opens shortly. If you're a GRLS owner who wants to claim a Hero now, email matt@sniff.world.

Source

Genotype from the CanVAS aggregated variant atlas (Brundage 2026). Cohort membership from the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study (Morris Animal Foundation). The CanVAS GRLS subset (n=3,197) joins the AWS GRLS PLINK dataset by exact IID match with no translation layer.