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 655 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 978 702 454 408 334 307 272 150 129 1810 5544
All single-gene traits: disease and non-disease 434 312 148 151 131 64 140 87 27 545 2039
with at least one known likely causal variant 356 212 119 75 67 48 57 29 17 295 1275
Single-gene diseases 394 274 120 118 94 50 100 69 13 230 1462
with at least one known likely causal variant 329 193 98 59 48 38 34 22 8 97 926
Potential models for human disease 629 355 286 229 145 166 91 90 60 917 2968
Variants (mutations)
All known likely causal variants for all single-gene traits: disease and non-disease 558 281 201 74 95 112 72 24 21 254 1692
All known likely causal variants for single-gene diseases 511 251 152 56 54 95 39 14 9 78 1259

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