OMIA:000214-89462 : Coat colour, white spotting in Bubalus bubalis (water buffalo)

In other species: dog , domestic cat , horse , llama , taurine cattle , domestic guinea pig

Categories: Pigmentation phene

Possibly relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s)s (MIM numbers): 193510 (trait) , 103500 (trait) , 156845 (gene)

Links to MONDO diseases: No links.

Mendelian trait/disorder: yes

Considered a defect: no

Key variant known: yes

Year key variant first reported: 2015

Cross-species summary: Variable degree of white spotting ranging from tiny white spots up to completely white animals. The absence of pigment is caused by the absence of skin melanocytes ("leucism, leucistic"), not by failure in the biochemical reactions required for pigment synthesis.

Molecular basis: Yusnizar et al. (2015): "Two independent loss-of-function mutations, a premature stop codon (c.328C>T, p.Arg110*) and a donor splice-site mutation (c.840+2T>A, p.Glu281_Leu282Ins8), both of which cause white-spotted coat color in swamp buffaloes, were identified. The nonsense mutation leads to a premature stop codon in exon 3, and likely removal of the resulting mRNA via nonsense-mediated decay pathway, whereas the donor splice-site mutation leads to aberrant splicing of exon 8 that encodes part of a highly conserved region of MITF. The resulting insertion of eight amino acid residues is expected to perturb the leucine zipper part in the basic helix-loop-helix leucine zipper (bHLH-Zip) domain and will most likely influence dimerization and DNA binding capacity."

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
MITF microphthalmia-associated transcription factor Bubalus bubalis 21 NC_059177.1 (31775071..31544437) MITF Homologene, Ensembl , NCBI gene

Variants

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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
341 Swamp buffalo (Buffalo) White spotting MITF nonsense (stop-gain) Naturally occurring variant c.328C>T p.(R110*) 2015 26417640
409 Swamp buffalo (Buffalo) White spotting MITF splicing Naturally occurring variant c.840+2T>A 2015 26417640

Cite this entry

Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2020). OMIA:000214-89462: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70

Reference

2015 Yusnizar, Y., Wilbe, M., Herlino, A.O., Sumantri, C., Noor, R.R., Boediono, A., Andersson, L., Andersson, G. :
Microphthalmia-associated transcription factor mutations are associated with white-spotted coat color in swamp buffalo. Anim Genet 46:676-682, 2015. Pubmed reference: 26417640. DOI: 10.1111/age.12334.

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  • Created by Frank Nicholas on 31 Dec 2015
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