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 521 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).

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 931 677 435 386 320 290 257 137 125 1448 5006
All Mendelian traits: disease and non-disease 422 305 142 139 125 62 137 79 26 471 1908
with at least one known likely causal variant 344 205 110 66 61 46 57 23 17 243 1172
Mendelian diseases 383 267 115 109 89 44 98 62 12 202 1381
with at least one known likely causal variant 318 186 92 51 43 32 34 16 8 81 861
Potential models for human disease 596 338 274 214 137 157 88 79 57 767 2707
Variants (mutations)
All known likely causal variants for all Mendelian traits: disease and non-disease 517 270 189 67 89 103 72 20 21 210 1558
All known likely causal variants for Mendelian diseases 473 243 143 50 50 43 39 10 9 68 1128

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