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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 670 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

dog taurine cattle cat pig sheep horse chicken rabbit goat Other Total
Traits (phenes)
All traits: disease and non-disease 982 703 455 408 336 307 273 151 131 1837 5583
All single-gene traits: disease and non-disease 436 313 149 151 132 65 140 87 27 545 2045
with at least one known likely causal variant 358 213 120 75 67 49 57 29 17 295 1280
Single-gene diseases 395 274 121 118 94 51 100 69 13 230 1465
with at least one known likely causal variant 330 193 99 59 48 39 34 22 8 97 929
Potential models for human disease 630 356 288 229 146 167 91 90 62 930 2989
Variants (mutations)
All known likely causal variants for all single-gene traits: disease and non-disease 561 282 205 75 95 113 72 24 21 255 1703
All known likely causal variants for single-gene diseases 513 251 156 57 54 96 39 14 9 78 1267

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