OMIA:001222-9685 : Leber congenital amaurosis in Felis catus (domestic cat) |
In other species: dog
Categories: Vision / eye phene
Links to possible relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s) in OMIM: 204100 (trait) , 180069 (gene) , 613794 (trait) , 618697 (trait)
Single-gene trait/disorder: yes
Disease-related: yes
Key variant known: yes
Year key variant first reported: 2016
Cross-species summary: This disorder has been renamed in OMIA on the basis of the review by Miyadera et al. (2012). It is also known as retinal pigment epithelial dystrophy.
Species-specific symbol: PRA-AIPL1 (Mowat et al., 2024)
Inheritance: Rah et al. (2005) characterised an autosomal recessive form of this disorder in Persian cats, and established a breeding colony.
Mapping: To map this disorder, Alhaddad et al. (2014) genotyped each of 106 animals (comprising 37 affecteds and 69 controls) from a colony of Persian cats segregating the disorder (established by Rah et al., 2005) with the illumina Infinium Feline 63 K iSelect DNA array, yielding 47,907 informative SNPs. Using these data, they then conducted a genome-wide linkage analysis, and three GWAS, namely a transmission disequilibrium test (TDT) on 33 discordant trios, a TDT among sib-pairs on 33 discordant sibs, and a case-control association analysis on all 106 animals. All four analyses highlighted an ~ 1.75 Mb region on chromosome FCA E1. Haplotype analysis reduced this region to ~1.3 Mb. The authors noted that this region contains several potential comparative positional and functional candidate genes.
Molecular basis: Lyons et al. (2016): c.577C>T; a predicted p.Arg193* (omia.variant:1214)
Prevalence: As reported by Lyons et al. (2016): "Over 1700 cats from 40 different breeds and populations were genotyped for the AIPL1 variant, defining an allelic frequency in only Persian -related breeds of 1.15 %".
Associated gene:
| Symbol | Description | Species | Chr | Location | OMIA gene details page | Other Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIPL1 | aryl hydrocarbon receptor interacting protein-like 1 | Felis catus | E1 | NC_058381.1 (932811..970531) | AIPL1 | Ensembl, NCBI gene |
Variants
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| OMIA Variant ID | Breed(s) | Variant Phenotype | Gene | Allele | Variant Type | Variant Effect | Source of Genetic Variant | Pathogenicity Classification* | Reference Sequence | Chr. | g. or m. | c. or n. | p. | Verbal Description | EVA ID | Year Published | PubMed ID(s) | Acknowledgements |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1214 | Persian (Cat) | Leber congenital amaurosis | AIPL1 | substitution | nonsense (stop-gain) | Naturally occurring variant | Not currently ISAG evaluated | F.catus_Fca126_mat1.0 | E1 | NC_058381.1:g.940554C>T | XM_045044616.1:c.577C>T | XP_044900551.1:p.(R193*) | 2016 | 27030474 | The genomic location on Felis_catus_9.0 and transcript information is based on Rodney et al. 2021 (PMID: 33785770). Updated to F.catus_Fca126_mat1.0 by Bella Bartner. |
* Variant pathogenicity for single gene diseases as evaluated by an expert panel of the International Society of Animal Genetics (ISAG) Animal Genetic Testing Standardization Standing Committee
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Cite this entry
Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2025). OMIA:001222-9685: 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.
| 2024 | Boeykens, F., Abitbol, M., Anderson, H., Casselman, I., de Citres, C.D., Hayward, J.J., Häggström, J., Kittleson, M.D., Lepri, E., Ljungvall, I., Longeri, M., Lyons, L.A., Ohlsson, Å., Peelman, L., Smets, P., Vezzosi, T., van Steenbeek, F.G., Broeckx, B.J.G. : |
| Development and validation of animal variant classification guidelines to objectively evaluate genetic variant pathogenicity in domestic animals. Front Vet Sci 11:1497817, 2024. Pubmed reference: 39703406. DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2024.1497817. | |
| Mowat, F.M., Iwabe, S., Aguirre, G.D., Petersen-Jones, S.M. : | |
| Consensus guidelines for nomenclature of companion animal inherited retinal disorders. Vet Ophthalmol 28:663-667, 2024. Pubmed reference: 38334230. DOI: 10.1111/vop.13185. | |
| 2021 | Rodney, A.R., Buckley, R.M., Fulton, R.S., Fronick, C., Richmond, T., Helps, C.R., Pantke, P., Trent, D.J., Vernau, K.M., Munday, J.S., Lewin, A.C., Middleton, R., Lyons, L.A., Warren, W.C. : |
| A domestic cat whole exome sequencing resource for trait discovery. Sci Rep 11:7159, 2021. Pubmed reference: 33785770. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-86200-7. | |
| 2016 | Lyons, L.A., Creighton, E.K., Alhaddad, H., Beale, H.C., Grahn, R.A., Rah, H., Maggs, D.J., Helps, C.R., Gandolfi, B. : |
| Whole genome sequencing in cats, identifies new models for blindness in AIPL1 and somite segmentation in HES7. BMC Genomics 17:265, 2016. Pubmed reference: 27030474. DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-2595-4. | |
| 2014 | Alhaddad, H., Gandolfi, B., Grahn, R.A., Rah, H.C., Peterson, C.B., Maggs, D.J., Good, K.L., Pedersen, N.C., Lyons, L.A. : |
| Genome-wide association and linkage analyses localize a progressive retinal atrophy locus in Persian cats. Mamm Genome 25:354-62, 2014. Pubmed reference: 24777202. DOI: 10.1007/s00335-014-9517-z. | |
| 2012 | Miyadera, K., Acland, G.M., Aguirre, G.D. : |
| Genetic and phenotypic variations of inherited retinal diseases in dogs: the power of within- and across-breed studies. Mamm Genome 23:40-61, 2012. Pubmed reference: 22065099. DOI: 10.1007/s00335-011-9361-3. | |
| 2006 | Rah, H., Maggs, DJ., Lyons, LA. : |
| Lack of genetic association among coat colors, progressive retinal atrophy and polycystic kidney disease in Persian cats. J Feline Med Surg 8:357-60, 2006. Pubmed reference: 16777456. DOI: 10.1016/j.jfms.2006.04.002. | |
| 2005 | Rah, H., Maggs, DJ., Blankenship, TN., Narfstrom, K., Lyons, LA. : |
| Early-onset, autosomal recessive, progressive retinal atrophy in Persian cats. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 46:1742-7, 2005. Pubmed reference: 15851577. DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-1019. |
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