OMIA:000202-476259 : Coat colour, oculocutaneous albinism type I (OCA1), TYR-related in Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus (Japanese raccoon dog)

In other species: Japanese medaka , dark-spotted frog , Japanese wrinkled frog , Tufted capuchin , Rhesus monkey , hamadryas baboon , dog , red fox , domestic ferret , domestic cat , lion , humpback whale , ass (donkey) , pig , red deer , American bison , taurine cattle , rabbit , golden hamster , Mongolian gerbil , domestic guinea pig , Japanese ratsnake , water buffalo , four-striped grass mouse , ocelot gecko , American mink , Rice frog

Categories: Pigmentation phene

Possibly relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s)s (MIM numbers): 203100 (trait) , 606952 (trait) , 606933 (gene)

Links to MONDO diseases: No links.

Mendelian trait/disorder: yes

Considered a defect: yes

Key variant known: yes

Year key variant first reported: 2020

Cross-species summary: Congenital lack of pigment in most parts of the body. Due to a non-functional form of the enzyme tyrosinase. Also known as Oculocutaneous albinism (OCA), Acromelanism and as the Himalayan coat-colour pattern

Species-specific description: Mae et al. (2020): "Tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus) ... with complete oculocutaneous albinism are relatively frequent in mountainous areas of mainland Japan." Mae et al. (2020) identified a likely causal complex intragene deletion effecting exon 3 of the TYR gene in a single albino tanuki and the same mutation was reported in a second albino tanuki by Yamamoto et al. (2021).

Molecular basis: Mae et al. (2020) "examined the structure and nucleotide sequence of TYR in an albino tanuki and found that the third exon was removed due to a deletion of approximately 11 kb. ... This deletion was not an absence of a single 11-kb segment: two separate regions of 3.8 kb and 7.3 kb had been removed, but a segment of 0.3 kb between these two regions was retained, though was present in the reverse orientation. ... In addition, two nonsynonymous nucleotide substitutions were found in the fifth exon." Yamamoto et al. (2021) "analyzed TYR of another albino tanuki [Japanese raccoon dog] that was found in Matsusaka, a city located outside the mountainous area. In this animal, the third exon was also lost, and the loss was due to a deletion in which the structure was identical to that of the Iida mutant" described by Mae et al. (2020).

Genetic engineering: Unknown
Have human generated variants been created, e.g. through genetic engineering and gene editing

Associated gene:

Symbol Description Species Chr Location OMIA gene details page Other Links
TYR Nyctereutes procyonoides viverrinus - no genomic information (-..-) TYR Ensembl

Variants

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Since October 2021, OMIA includes a semiautomated lift-over pipeline to facilitate updates of genomic positions to a recent reference genome position. These changes to genomic positions are not always reflected in the ‘acknowledgements’ or ‘verbal description’ fields in this table.

OMIA Variant ID Breed(s) Variant Phenotype Gene Allele Type of Variant Source of Genetic Variant Reference Sequence Chr. g. or m. c. or n. p. Verbal Description EVA ID Inferred EVA rsID Year Published PubMed ID(s) Acknowledgements
1304 Albinism TYR complex rearrangement Naturally occurring variant Mae et al. (2020): "the third exon was removed due to a deletion ... :two separate regions of 3.8 kb and 7.3 kb had been removed, but a segment of 0.3 kb between these two regions was retained, though was present in the reverse orientation." 2020 32783776

Cite this entry

Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2021). OMIA:000202-476259: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70

References

Note: the references are listed in reverse chronological order (from the most recent year to the earliest year), and alphabetically by first author within a year.

2021 Yamamoto, S., Murase, M., Miyazaki, M., Hayashi, S., Koga, A. :
A mutant gene for albino body color is widespread in natural populations of tanuki (Japanese raccoon dog). Genes Genet Syst 96:33-39, 2021. Pubmed reference: 33678735. DOI: 10.1266/ggs.20-00047.
2020 Mae, Y., Nagara, K., Miyazaki, M., Katsura, Y., Enomoto, Y., Koga, A. :
Complex intragene deletion leads to oculocutaneous albinism in tanuki (Japanese raccoon dog). Genome 63:517-523, 2020. Pubmed reference: 32783776. DOI: 10.1139/gen-2020-0049.

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