Canid Palaeogenomics: Ancient and Modern Dog and Dingo Genotype Callsets

282.4 MB of PLINK genotype callsets for canids, created by Shyamsundar Ravishankar and last updated in April 2026. The data integrates ancient and modern whole genomes from multiple published studies, focusing on European dog admixture and dingo conservation. It includes four distinct variant call sets, ranging from 19 million to 46 thousand biallelic transversions and SNPs.

Use Cases

• Analyzing population admixture and ancestry in canids based on integrated ancient and modern genomes.
• Identifying introgressed alleles in dingo genomes for conservation genetics.
• Conducting scalable genomic analyses for dingo conservation using filtered and merged variant sets.
• Performing comparative genomics between ancient European dogs and modern dingo populations.

Strengths

• Integrates data from at least eight major published genomics studies, providing a synthesized resource.
• Offers multiple filtered call sets (19M, 190K, 46K variants) tailored for different analysis scales.
• Includes a specific subset with introgressed alleles masked and related individuals removed for dingo analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for certain statistical methods.
• Data may reflect temporal and source bias inherent to the aggregated studies.

Provenance

Source

Aggregated from published studies by Plassais et al., Bergström et al., Zhang et al., Field et al., Ballard et al., Souilmi et al., Scarsbrook et al., and Cairns et al.

Collection Method

Variant callsets generated from whole genome sequencing data, called on biallelic transversions and SNPs.

Time Range

Covers ancient and modern canid samples; specific temporal range not stated.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 00:44:39; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Focus on European dogs and Australian dingoes; specific geographic coverage not stated.