Alaskan Klee Kai
Temperament: Highly intelligent, trainable, active dog. Alert and occasionally vocal.
Height: Three sizes: standard, over 15 inches up to and including 17 inches; miniature, over 13 inches up to and including 15 inches; and toy, up to 13 inches.
Weight: 10-20 lbs
Life Span: 12 - 16 years
Breed Average Outlier Index: 0.24
Breed Average Genetic Relatedness: 0.00
Breed Average Internal Relatedness: 0.00
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The Alaskan Klee Kai was developed in the 1970s from a rescue named Curious who was believed to have been bred from a purebred Husky and a mixed breed dog. The Spurlin family developed the beginning of the AKK breed from this initial rescue. Other dogs used in the production of the breed included Siberian and Alaskan Huskies, a Schipperke and an American Eskimo Dogs. The Alaskan Klee Kai (AKK) was officially recognized by the American Rare Breed Association (ARBA) in 1995 and by the United Kennel Club (UKC) in 1997. AKK occur in three size ranges: 1) Toy - ?13 inches; 2) Miniature - >13 inches and ?15 inches, and Standard - >15 inches and ?17 inches.
Breed Standard coming soon!'
AKK have been found to be doing a good job at present maintaining heterozygousity within the breed.
Alaskan klee kai's are fairly closely clustered together genetically. When compared to modern day village dogs, AKK would be considered products of full-sibling matings, with substantial loss of breed-wide diversity. They have been found to have a severe bottleneck with low average alleles and effective alleles found within the tested population (Na of 4.788 alleles per locus and a mean Ne of 2.620 alleles per locus resepctively).
AKK have been found to be doing a good job at present maintaining heterozygousity within the breed.
All of the DLA found in AKK have been found in other breed. At present, 11 different STR-associated DLA Class I and 8 DLA Class II have been found. This is a fairly typical number of DLA compared to other breeds.
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 | 1014 | 2037 | 34.30% | 1040 | 2043 | 22.59% | 1062 | 2021 | 21.35% | 1008 | 2014 | 5.92% | 1011 | 2012 | 5.51% | 1061 | 2042 | 5.10% | 1064 | 2007 | 2.07% | 1063 | 2014 | 1.10% | 1060 | 2021 | 0.83% | 1062 | 2012 | 0.41% | 1072 | 2021 | 0.28% |
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DLA Frequencies :
Class | Haplotype | Frequency in the Breed | Class I | 1008 | 5.94% | Class I | 1011 | 5.52% | Class I | 1014 | 34.53% | Class I | 1040 | 22.65% | Class I | 1060 | 0.83% | Class I | 1061 | 5.11% | Class I | 1062 | 21.96% | Class I | 1063 | 1.10% | Class I | 1064 | 2.07% | Class I | 1072 | 0.28% | Class II | 2007 | 2.07% | Class II | 2012 | 5.94% | Class II | 2014 | 7.04% | Class II | 2021 | 22.65% | Class II | 2037 | 34.53% | Class II | 2042 | 5.11% | Class II | 2043 | 22.65% |
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