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OMIA:000100-9031 : Baldness, congenital in Gallus gallus (chicken)

Categories: Integument (skin) phene

Mendelian trait/disorder: yes

Mode of inheritance: Z-linked recessive

Disease-related: yes

Key variant known: no

Species-specific name: Supraorbital featherless areas (Hutt, 1932)

Species-specific symbol: ba

History: This disorder was first described by Hutt (1932).

Inheritance: Hutt (1932) provided evidence for autosomal recessive inheritance, but Somes (1989) provided substantial evidence for Z-linked recessive inheritance (with some exceptions).

Cite this entry

Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2012). OMIA:000100-9031: 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.

1989 Somes, R.G. :
Hereditary congenital baldness - A sex-linked trait in the domestic fowl J Hered 80:493-6, 1989. Pubmed reference: 2614064. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a110910.
1970 Somes, R.G. :
Congenital baldness, a sex linked trait in the domestic fowl Poultry Science 49:1440 only, 1970.
1932 Hutt, F.B. :
Eight new mutations in the domestic fowl Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Genetics, Ithaca, New York. 2:96-97, 1932.

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