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Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) is a catalogue/compendium of inherited disorders, other (single-locus) traits, and associated genes and variants in 721 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, comprising an OMIA phene ID and the NCBI species taxonomy ID.

The table below shows summary information for key domesticated species. A more detailed table covering additional species, as well as information based on phene categories (aligned with Mammalian Phenotype and Mondo ontology terms), can be found under the Browse tab.

To report a suspected or confirmed inherited disease in Australian animals for surveillance, visit the Anstee Hub for Inherited Diseases in Animals (AHIDA).

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

dog taurine cattle cat pig sheep horse chicken rabbit goat Other Total
Traits (phenes)
All traits: disease and non-disease 996 738 464 420 347 320 283 156 137 1972 5833
All single-gene traits: disease and non-disease 440 321 149 151 135 67 141 87 28 557 2076
with at least one known likely causal variant 362 220 120 76 70 51 57 29 18 305 1308
Single-gene diseases 397 281 121 118 97 52 100 69 13 232 1480
with at least one known likely causal variant 332 200 99 60 51 40 34 22 8 100 946
Potential models for human disease 638 369 290 232 152 170 93 92 64 975 3075
Variants (mutations)
All known likely causal variants for all single-gene traits: disease and non-disease 567 294 206 75 98 114 72 24 21 261 1732
All known likely causal variants for single-gene diseases 518 262 157 57 57 96 39 14 9 80 1289

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