Maremma Sheepdog
Placed on this panel from 6 sequenced dogs, among 258 breeds.
Measured nearest to Akbash — but drop any one of the sequenced dogs behind this breed and a different one comes first, so naming a single closest breed would be a lie of precision. The top of this list is a tie.
The 12 breeds nearest to Maremma Sheepdog.
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 Maremma Sheepdog really is to anything.
1
Akbash2
Sarplaninac3
Great Pyrenees4
Turkish Mastiff5
Central Asian Shepherd Dog6
Cretan Tracer7
Sloughi8
Zagar9
Kars10
Polish Greyhound11
Caucasian Ovcharka12
Anatolian Shepherd Dog
Akbash2Sarplaninac3Great Pyrenees4Turkish Mastiff5Central Asian Shepherd Dog6Cretan Tracer7Sloughi8Zagar9Kars10Polish Greyhound11Caucasian Ovcharka12Anatolian Shepherd DogCloseness 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.