Phenotypes

For many years, there was circumstantial evidence that this disorder in cattle is due to a mutation in the gene for the enzyme procollagen I amino proteinase, which is the enzyme responsible for removing "surplus" amino acids from the N-terminal end of procollagen-I molecules. This phene has been renamed from "Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, type VII (Dermatosparaxis)" to "Dermatosparaxis Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (dEDS), ADAMTS2-related" in OMIA on the ...

Shibutani et al. (2023) list a causal variant for F13 deficiency in Japanese Black cattle in the F13A1 gene as BTA23:g.48649432T>C, c.248T>C; p.F83S based on the publication by Ogawa and Iga (1996). Matsumoto et al. (2023) detected this variant in the Kumamoto sub-breed of Japanese Brown cattle.

For eight of the nine haplotypes with a significant effect on calving rate (see Mapping section), Fritz et al. (2013) searched for causal mutations via whole-genome sequence data from 25 Holstein, 11 Montbéliarde and nine Normande bulls which had made major contributions to their breed. Specifically, they filtered "for mutations that were (a) located at+or –6 Mb from the detected haplotype (b) carried in the heterozygous state by the carrier b...

Jacinto et al. (2023): "A trio whole-genome sequencing approach [of an affected 5 month old Wagyu calf and its parents] identified a deleterious homozygous missense variant in DGKG (p.Thr721Ile). The allele frequency in 209 genotyped Wagyu was 7.2%."

Syndactyly has been reported in many breeds of cattle in many countries. Most of the documentation, however, concerns its occurrence in US Holsteins, where, as a result of the siring of more than 60,000 calves by a bull who was subsequently shown to be a carrier, the disorder attracted considerable attention (Anon., 1967). The possibility that artificial selection favouring heterozygotes may have contributed to the unacceptably high frequency ...