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 664 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. To better conform to global standards, in March 2023 the binomial format was changed slightly by replacing a space with a colon, i.e. OMIA:xxxxxx-yyyy.., where xxxxxx is the 6-digit number for a trait/disorder, and yyyy.. is the NCBI species taxonomy id (usually four digits, but sometimes longer).

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

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Traits (phenes)
All traits: disease and non-disease 979 702 453 408 335 307 273 150 130 1825 5562
All single-gene traits: disease and non-disease 435 312 148 151 132 64 140 87 27 545 2041
with at least one known likely causal variant 357 212 119 75 67 48 57 29 17 295 1276
Single-gene diseases 395 274 120 118 94 50 100 69 13 230 1463
with at least one known likely causal variant 330 193 98 59 48 38 34 22 8 97 927
Potential models for human disease 630 355 286 229 145 166 91 90 61 924 2977
Variants (mutations)
All known likely causal variants for all single-gene traits: disease and non-disease 559 281 203 75 95 112 72 24 21 254 1696
All known likely causal variants for single-gene diseases 512 251 154 57 54 95 39 14 9 78 1263

Collaborators