Swedish Vallhund
Temperament: Intelligent, happy, and eager to please. Good with children. Sheds seasonally and needs occasional grooming.
Height: 31.75- 35 cm or 12.5-13.75 inches (male), 29- 32.4 cm or 11.5-12.75 inches (female)
Weight: 20-35 lbs or 9 - 16 kgs
Life Span: 12-15 years
Breed Average Outlier Index: 0.40
Breed Average Genetic Relatedness: -0.01
Breed Average Internal Relatedness: 0.01
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No. | Name | Gender | Outlier Index | Average Genetic Relatedness | Internal Relatedness | 1 | Alkemi Desperado | M | 0.51 | -0.04 | -0.08 | 2 | Vallhollow Figment Of Imagination | F | 0.46 | 0.00 | -0.09 | 3 | Vallhollow Sisu | F | 0.33 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 4 | Vallhollow Born In The USA | M | 0.37 | -0.04 | 0.28 | 5 | Starvon Her Name In Lights | F | 0.41 | -0.01 | -0.08 | 6 | Vallhollow Dragon Heart | M | 0.31 | 0.01 | 0.13 | 7 | Vallhollow Weird Science | M | 0.35 | -0.02 | 0.23 | 8 | Skaldsong's Bard To The Bone | F | 0.49 | -0.01 | -0.06 | 9 | Valkyrie's One For The Money | F | 0.31 | 0.10 | 0.02 | 10 | Valkyrie's Family Heirloom | F | 0.36 | 0.09 | -0.16 |
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The national breed of Sweden, also known as the Västgötaspets or Swedish cow dog. this was historically a landrace breed. However, after World War II the breed was reformed by small group of citizens who found a limited number of remaining dogs that best demonstrated the breed type. The small number of founders is reflected in how little diversity still exists in the breed, though that diversity is well distributed in the tested population
The Swedish Vallhund breed suffers from progressive retinopathy, allergies, hemophilia, vertebrae issues, and epilepsy.
The follow includes dogs with birthdates listed in the database.
DLA Haplotypes in the Breed
The Dog Leukocyte Antigen or DLA is the region in the canine genome that controls the immune system, among other things. There are three classes or areas, and the VGL Canine Diversity Test genotypes or records the two regions with the most variation. Because it is an area that mutates more rapidly than others, the method VGL uses is ideal for identifying specific combinations of DNA, and not merely showing whether a dog inherited two of the same sets of genetics from its parents or two different ones.
"Haplotype" is a generic name for a set of genes that are bound together and inherited as a set. The DLA Class I and Class II haplotypes are very tightly bound and represent about 2 million base pairs of DNA - a sizeable chunk. These two haplotypes together make an extended haplotype that is nearly always passed from parent to puppies as a pair. We therefore have two tables below showing both the combinations of DLA found in this breed and how often they appear, and also how often they appear individually.
Remember that frequency percentages do not show how many dogs carry them, but rather how many of these haplotypes exist in the breed as a whole. Every dog has two sets of DLA haplotypes, one inherited from dam, and one inherited from sire. These almost never recombine in new generations.
DLA Class I/Class II Combinations :
Class I Haplotype | Class II Haplotype | Frequency in the Breed | 1068 | 2053 | 37.94% | 1006 | 2007 | 23.65% | 1177 | 2084 | 17.10% | 1178 | 2053 | 14.52% | 1009 | 2022 | 5.74% | 1259 | 2053 | 0.70% | 1179 | 2007 | 0.23% | 1177 | 2066 | 0.12% |
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DLA Frequencies :
Class | Haplotype | Frequency in the Breed | Class I | 1006 | 23.65% | Class I | 1009 | 5.74% | Class I | 1068 | 37.94% | Class I | 1177 | 17.21% | Class I | 1178 | 14.52% | Class I | 1179 | 0.23% | Class I | 1259 | 0.70% | Class II | 2007 | 23.89% | Class II | 2022 | 5.74% | Class II | 2053 | 53.16% | Class II | 2066 | 0.12% | Class II | 2084 | 17.10% |
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