OMIA:000031-9940 : Coat colour, dilution, MLPH-related in Ovis aries (sheep)

In other species: dog , domestic ferret , domestic cat , taurine cattle , rabbit , American mink

Categories: Pigmentation phene

Links to possible relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s) in OMIM: 609227 (trait) , 606526 (gene)

Links to relevant human diseases in MONDO:

Single-gene trait/disorder: yes

Disease-related: no

Key variant known: yes

Year key variant first reported: 2020

Cross-species summary: FN acknowledges invaluable feedback from Cord Drögemüller that has led to the name of this phene being changed from "Coat colour, diluted" to "Coat colour, dilution, MLPH-related". At the same time, a new phene "Coat colour, dilution, generic" was created.

Species-specific description: Posbergh et al. (2020): "A dilute phenotype has been observed within the Jacob breed, often called lilac. This dilution results in the nonwhite portions of the wool appearing gray, rather than the traditional black."

Inheritance: Posbergh et al. (2020): "based on pedigree analysis of the Jacob Sheep Breeders Association registry, the dilution is inherited and expressed in an autosomal recessive pattern [Anjola and McEwan, 2018]"

Molecular basis: Posbergh et al. (2020) reported "a nonsynonymous mutation within MLPH, which appeared to match the reported autosomal recessive nature of the lilac dilution. This mutation (NC_019458.2:g.3451931C>A) results in a premature stop codon being introduced early in the protein (NP_001139743.1:p.Glu14*), likely losing its function. Validation testing of additional lilac Jacob sheep and known carriers, unrelated to the original case, showed a complete concordance between the mutation and the dilution."

Breed: Jacob (Sheep) (VBO_0001450).
Breeds in which the phene has been documented. (If a likely causal variant has been documented for the phene, see the variant table breeds in which the variant has been reported).

Associated gene:

Symbol Description Species Chr Location OMIA gene details page Other Links
MLPH melanophilin Ovis aries 1 NC_056054.1 (3692361..3645641) MLPH Homologene, Ensembl , NCBI gene

Variants

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WARNING! Inclusion of a variant in this table does not automatically mean that it should be used for DNA testing. Anyone contemplating the use of any of these variants for DNA testing should examine critically the relevant evidence (especially in breeds other than the breed in which the variant was first described). If it is decided to proceed, the location and orientation of the variant sequence should be checked very carefully.

Since October 2021, OMIA includes a semiautomated lift-over pipeline to facilitate updates of genomic positions to a recent reference genome position. These changes to genomic positions are not always reflected in the ‘acknowledgements’ or ‘verbal description’ fields in this table.

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 Year Published PubMed ID(s) Acknowledgements
1217 Jacob (Sheep) Lilac MLPH nonsense (stop-gain) Naturally occurring variant Oar_rambouillet_v1.0 1 NC_040252.1:g.3580535C>A NM_001146271.1:c.40G>T NP_001139743.1:p.(E14*) Oar_v4.0 position is NC_019458.2:g.3451931C>A; NP_001139743.1:p.Glu14* (Posbergh et al., 2020) 2020 32512769

Cite this entry

Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2020). OMIA:000031-9940: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70

References

Note: the references are listed in reverse chronological order (from the most recent year to the earliest year), and alphabetically by first author within a year.

2020 Posbergh, C.J., Staiger, E.A., Huson, H.J. :
A stop-gain mutation within MLPH is responsible for the lilac dilution observed in Jacob sheep. Genes (Basel) 11:618, 2020. Pubmed reference: 32512769. DOI: 10.3390/genes11060618.
2018 Anjola, O., McEwan, N. :
Inheritance patterns of coat colouration and horn number in Jacob sheep Open Agriculture 3:363-367, 2018.

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