OMIA:000374-70340 : Feather colour, extended black in Anser caerulescens caerulescens (Lesser snow goose)

In other species: Mallard , Coscoroba swan , black swan , rock pigeon , helmeted guineafowl , chicken , king penguin , Arctic skua , pomarine skua , brown booby , red-footed booby , zebra finch , Bananaquit , gyrfalcon , ruff , Chestnut-bellied monarch , Eleonora's falcon

Categories: Pigmentation phene

Possibly relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s)s (MIM numbers): 266300 (trait) , 155555 (gene)

Links to MONDO diseases: No links.

Mendelian trait/disorder: yes

Mode of inheritance: Autosomal

Considered a defect: no

Key variant known: yes

Year key variant first reported: 2004

Molecular basis: Mundy et al. (2004): "A nonsynonymous point substitution (Val85>Met85) in the MC1R gene was perfectly associated with the blue phenotype throughout the entire range of lesser snow geese across North America . . . . All blue geese sampled (N = 91) were heterozygous or homozygous for the Met85 allele, whereas all white geese (N = 116), were homozygous for the Val85 allele."

Genetic engineering: Unknown
Have human generated variants been created, e.g. through genetic engineering and gene editing

Associated gene:

Symbol Description Species Chr Location OMIA gene details page Other Links
MC1R Anser caerulescens caerulescens - no genomic information (-..-) MC1R Ensembl

Variants

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WARNING! Inclusion of a variant in this table does not automatically mean that it should be used for DNA testing. Anyone contemplating the use of any of these variants for DNA testing should examine critically the relevant evidence (especially in breeds other than the breed in which the variant was first described). If it is decided to proceed, the location and orientation of the variant sequence should be checked very carefully.

Since October 2021, OMIA includes a semiautomated lift-over pipeline to facilitate updates of genomic positions to a recent reference genome position. These changes to genomic positions are not always reflected in the ‘acknowledgements’ or ‘verbal description’ fields in this table.

OMIA Variant ID Breed(s) Variant Phenotype Gene Allele Type of Variant Source of Genetic Variant Reference Sequence Chr. g. or m. c. or n. p. Verbal Description EVA ID Inferred EVA rsID Year Published PubMed ID(s) Acknowledgements
1101 Blue plumage MC1R missense Naturally occurring variant p.(V85M) 2004 15031505

Cite this entry

Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2019). OMIA:000374-70340: 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.

2005 Mundy, N.I. :
A window on the genetics of evolution: MC1R and plumage colouration in birds. Proc Biol Sci 272:1633-40, 2005. Pubmed reference: 16087416. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3107.
2004 Mundy, N.I., Badcock, N.S., Hart, T., Scribner, K., Janssen, K., Nadeau, N.J. :
Conserved genetic basis of a quantitative plumage trait involved in mate choice. Science 303:1870-3, 2004. Pubmed reference: 15031505. DOI: 10.1126/science.1093834.

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