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OMIA:000970-9940 : Tail abnormalities in Ovis aries (sheep)

In other species: dog , domestic cat , llama , taurine cattle , alpaca , golden jackal

Categories: Limbs / fins / digit / tail phene

Single-gene trait/disorder: unknown

Disease-related: yes

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Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2005). OMIA:000970-9940: 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.

2025 Mainzer, J., Yin, T., Giambra, I., Hümmelchen, H., Engel, P., Wagner, H., Wehrend, A., König, S. :
Genetic parameters, genome-wide associations and potential candidate genes for additive and dominance effects of tail traits in Merinoland sheep based on whole-genome sequence data in a selection experiment. Anim Genet 56:e70041, 2025. Pubmed reference: 40965274. DOI: 10.1111/age.70041.
2021 Kalds, P., Luo, Q., Sun, K., Zhou, S., Chen, Y., Wang, X. :
Trends towards revealing the genetic architecture of sheep tail patterning: Promising genes and investigatory pathways. Anim Genet 52:799-812, 2021. Pubmed reference: 34472112. DOI: 10.1111/age.13133.
2020 Zhao, F., Deng, T., Shi, L., Wang, W., Zhang, Q., Du, L., Wang, L. :
Genomic scan for selection signature reveals fat deposition in Chinese indigenous sheep with extreme tail types. Animals (Basel) 10:773, 2020. Pubmed reference: 32365604. DOI: 10.3390/ani10050773.
1972 Dennis, S.M. :
Congenital tail defects in lambs Cornell Vet 62:568-72, 1972. Pubmed reference: 5077535.

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  • Created by Frank Nicholas on 06 Sep 2005