Briard
Placed on this panel from 6 sequenced dogs, among 258 breeds.
Measured nearest to Beauceron, and nothing among the other 257 breeds is nearer. The smallest branch holding them both covers 0.7% of this tree.
The 12 breeds nearest to Briard.
The line starts at the tightest pairing this panel holds and ends at the widest separation measured on it, so how far along these marks sit is the answer to how close Briard really is to anything.
1
Beauceron2
Catalan Sheepdog3
Pyrenean Shepherd4
Belgian Sheepdog (Groenendael)5
Scottish Deerhound6
Bergamasco Sheepdog7
Belgian Tervuren8
Belgian Laekenois9
Belgian Malinois10
Bouvier des Flandres11
Bohemian Shepherd12
Portuguese Sheepdog
Beauceron2Catalan Sheepdog3Pyrenean Shepherd4Belgian Sheepdog (Groenendael)5Scottish Deerhound6Bergamasco Sheepdog7Belgian Tervuren8Belgian Laekenois9Belgian Malinois10Bouvier des Flandres11Bohemian Shepherd12Portuguese SheepdogCloseness is measured from the genomes, and nothing else. It has no units and no dates. Two breeds sitting close together means their lines separate late in this data. It does not mean either one came from the other.