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Welcome to OMIA

 

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) is a catalogue/compendium of inherited disorders, other (single-locus) traits, and associated genes and variants in 793 (mostly vertebrate) animal species (other than human and mouse and rats and zebrafish and western clawed frog, which have their own resources) co-authored by curator Associate Professor Imke Tammen and founder Professor Frank Nicholas of the University of Sydney, Australia, with help from many people over the years. OMIA information is stored in a database that contains textual information and references, as well as links to relevant PubMed and Gene records at the NCBI, to OMIM, Ensembl, Mondo Disease Ontology and the Vertebrate Breed Ontology (VBO).

OMIA is manually curated by a team of specialists. If you see an error or wish to submit an entry, please contact us.

To join the OMIA Support Group, register at OMIA Support Group.

From 1st September 2011, the OMIA ID is binomial, comprising an OMIA phene ID and the NCBI species taxonomy ID.

The table below shows summary information for key domesticated species. A more detailed table covering additional species, as well as information based on phene categories (aligned with Mammalian Phenotype and Mondo ontology terms), can be found under the Browse tab.

To report a suspected or confirmed inherited disease in Australian animals for surveillance, visit the Anstee Hub for Inherited Diseases in Animals (AHIDA).

We have recently launched the Pioneers of Mendelian Inheritance in Animals project (PMIA), an exploration of the history of research into Mendelian inheritance in animals.

Summary

dog taurine cattle cat pig sheep horse chicken rabbit goat Other Total
Traits (phenes)
All traits: disease and non-disease 1023 747 475 429 353 333 290 161 142 2146 6099
All single-gene traits: disease and non-disease 461 326 153 154 136 73 143 89 30 585 2150
with at least one known likely causal variant 381 225 125 79 71 57 60 30 20 325 1373
Single-gene diseases 415 287 125 123 98 57 100 71 14 251 1541
with at least one known likely causal variant 349 206 104 65 52 45 34 23 9 113 1000
Chromosomal phenes 9 24 10 15 12 17 12 5 6 82 192
Potential models for human disease 658 373 296 238 155 176 96 95 68 1054 3209
Variants (mutations)
All known likely causal variants for all single-gene traits: disease and non-disease 601 299 216 77 98 120 79 25 23 285 1823
All known likely causal variants for single-gene diseases 547 268 167 59 57 102 39 15 10 91 1355

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