Phenotypes

Rothammer et al. (2017): "comparisons of the sequence of [the candidate] haplotype [see Genetic mapping section] with sequence data from four Braunvieh sires and the Aurochs genome identified two possible candidate causal mutations at positions 39,829,806 bp (G/A; R45Q) [omia.variant:847] and 39,864,148 bp (C/T; T444I) [omia.variant:848] that were absent in 1682 animals from various bovine breeds included in the 1000 bull genomes project. Both...

Armed with the knowledge that TYRP1 in Dexter cattle is a strong positional candidate gene for the dun phenotype (see Mapping section above), Berryere et al. (2003) showed that dun brown coat colour in Dexter cattle is due to homozygosity for a H434Y amino acid substitution in TYRP1, due to "a C to T change in nucleotide 1300 within exon 7" of the TYRP1 gene. [FN 10 Sep 2005; 21 Sep 2012]. See also OMIA:001821-9913 : Coat colour, albinism, ocu...

Fontanesi  et al. (2010): "[V]ariation in the white spotting in several cattle breeds is largely influenced by the multiple allelic series at the S locus, which includes at least four alleles (Olson 1999): SH (Hereford pattern), SP (Pinzgauer pattern or lineback), S+ (non-spotted) and s (spotting pattern). The SH allele gives white face, belly, feet and tail, often with a white stripe over the shoulder when homozygous. The SP allele gives pigm...

Floriot et al. (2021) "A total of 106 affected animals were reported to the French National Observatory for Bovine Abnormalities (ONAB, https://www.onab.fr/, Grohs et al. 2016). The first case reported to the ONAB was a cow born in 2008. At birth, the affected animals, which are otherwise healthy, present a dilution of the pigmented, normally red, areas of the coat .... To search for the causative genetic factors responsible for this genetic co...

In a reversal of the normal sequence of discovery, Li et al. (2016) discovered this phenotype AFTER identifying the causal mutation, by noticing that all Belgian Blue cattle with a particular mutation (MLPH: c.87_96del; p.Glu32Aspfs*1), which inactivates MLPH, have an expected dilution phenotype which the authors called "cool gray".

Gutiérrez-Gil et al. (2007): c.64G>A Jolly et al. (2008): c.50_52delTTC Laible et al. (2021): "To better adapt dairy cattle to rapidly warming climates, we aimed to lighten their coat color by genome editing. ... Using gRNA/Cas9-mediated editing, we introduced a three bp deletion in the pre-melanosomal protein 17 gene (PMEL) proposed as causative variant for the semi-dominant color dilution phenotype observed in Galloway and Highland cattl...

By comparing whole-genome sequence of a small number of Holsteins having the trait, with sequence data from hundreds of control animals, Capitan et al. (2014) confirmed the mapping results of Lawlor et al. (2014) and identified the causal mutation as a de novo variant BTA3 g.C9479761T, which corresponds to a missense mutation p.R160C in the COPA gene that encodes coatomer protein complex, subunit alpha. By whole-genome sequencing of a Dominant...

See also: OMIA:001737-9913 : Coat colour, white spotting, KIT-related in Bos taurus (taurine cattle) and  OMIA:001576-9913 : Coat colour, colour-sided in Bos taurus (taurine cattle).

Philipp et al. (2011) reported a "dominantly inherited syndrome associated with hypopigmentation, heterochromia irides, colobomatous eyes and bilateral hearing loss . . . in Fleckvieh cattle"

For information relating to Bos indicus cattle see: OMIA 001199-9915 : Coat colour, extension in Bos indicus

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Senczuk et al. (2020): " Worldwide, several breeds share peculiar coat color features such as the presence of a fawn pigmentation of the calf at birth, turning over time to grey, and sexual dichromatism."

By cloning and sequencing a very likely comparative positional candidate gene (see the Genetic mapping section above), Seitz et al. (1999) reported that a missense mutation at 654 bp (amino acid 193, Ala>Asp) in the mast cell growth factor (MGF) locus is responsible for the roan phenotype in Belgian Blue and Shorthorn cattle (Mohammad Shariflou. The MGF gene is now called KITLG (10/11/2006; FN 15/9/2012)

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Awasthi Mishra et al. (2017) reported a likely causal variant for this classic phene: "The belt-associated variant was a copy number variant (CNV) involving the quadruplication of a 6 kb non-coding sequence located approximately 16 kb upstream of the TWIST2 gene. Increased copy numbers at this CNV were strongly associated with the belt phenotype in a cohort of 333 cases and 1322 controls. We hypothesized that the CNV causes aberrant expression...