Breed relationships facilitate fine-mapping studies: A 7.8-kb deletion cosegregates with Collie eye anomaly across multiple dog breeds

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Table 1.

Cluster analysis confirms the breed-historic relationships for 18 breed pairs

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Table 1.

These dogs cluster with members of closely related breeds in at least 80% of all runs and related breeds in at least 60% of all runs. The median distance between dogs in the same breed is 0.043 (average 0.098).

aWithin breed distance is the average of the two related breeds.

bThe Standard and Toy Manchester Terriers and the Miniature and Toy Poodles, respectively, are varieties of the same breed according to AKC rules and standards.

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