Phenotypes
Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, CHRNB1-related
Agerholm et al. (2016): "a single base deletion in the first exon of CHRNB1 (c.55delG) introducing a premature stop codon (p.Ala19Profs47*) in the second exon, truncating 96 % of the protein."
Chondrodysplasia, EVC2-related — bovine chondrodysplastic dwarfism, bcd
Also known as Ellis-van Creveld Syndrome
Cleft palate, syndromic, WDR33-related — syndromic cleft palate with pentalogy of Fallot and internal hydrocephalus
Bolcato et al. (2025): Genetic analysis identified a missense variant in WDR33 (omia.variant:1814) that was heterozygous in both analyzed cases [Belgian Blue cross calves] and in an estimated 40% of the paternal gametes of the mosaic [Belgian Blue] founder, but absent in both dams and controls. ... The genetic findings were most consistent with a likely pathogenic dominant de novo mutation in WDR33 as the underlying cause of the observed conge...
Epidermolysis bullosa, dystrophic
In a sign of the times, Menoud et al. (2012) needed only three affected Rotes Höhenvieh calves to identify the causative mutation of this disorder as being a "SNP in the bovine COL7A1 exon 49 (c.4756C>T) . . . which causes a premature stop codon which leads to a truncated protein representing a complete loss of COL7A1 function (p.R1586*)" Independently of the above discovery, Pausch et al. (2016) discovered exactly the same likely causal va...
Growth and respiratory lethal syndrome
Eusebi et al. (2022): "Whole genome resequencing of three affected calves and three putative non-carrier parents identified a novel missense variant (c.149G>A|p.Cys50Tyr) in exon 2 of the endothelin 2 (EDN2) gene. Bioinformatic analyses of p.Cys50Tyr effects predicted them to be damaging for both the structure and the function of the edn2 protein, and to create a new site of splicing that may also affect the pattern of pre-mRNA splicing and...