OMIA:000201-9627 : Coat colour, agouti in Vulpes vulpes (red fox) |
In other species: Tasmanian devil , common brushtail possum , gray wolf , coyote , dog , domestic cat , leopard , ass (donkey) , horse , pig , Arabian camel , llama , Western roe deer , impala , taurine cattle , goat , sheep , rabbit , tassel-eared squirrel , North American deer mouse , Mongolian gerbil , meadow voles , domestic guinea pig , fallow deer , alpaca , leopard cat , oldfield mouse , Kodkod , Colocolo , Asiatic golden cat , Northern mole vole , Eurasian water mole
Categories: Pigmentation phene
Links to possible relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s) in OMIM: 611742 (trait) , 600201 (gene)
Single-gene trait/disorder: yes
Mode of inheritance: Autosomal
Disease-related: no
Key variant known: yes
Year key variant first reported: 1997
Cross-species summary: This locus, ASIP, encodes the agouti signalling protein, a peptide antagonist of the melanocyte-stimulating hormone receptor (MC1R), which is the product of the extension locus. As explained by Schneider et al. (PLoS Genet 10(2): e1004892; 2015), "The most common causes of melanism (black coat) mutations are gain-of-function alterations in MC1R, or loss-of function alterations in ASIP, which encodes Agouti signaling protein, a paracrine signaling molecule that inhibits MC1R signaling".
Species-specific description: Vage et al. (1997) cloned and characterized the fox agouti gene, and showed that a deletion in the first coding exon is responsible for the recessive agouti allele documented in the darkly pigmented Standard Silver fox ("a 166-nt deletion in the Standard Silver fox cDNA, spanning the second exon ... . This deletion removes the start codon and entire signal peptide"). This dark pigmentation is presumably due to the lack of agouti product, i.e. the lack of an antagonist to the melanocyte-stimulating hormone receptor (which is the product of the extension locus).
Associated gene:
Symbol | Description | Species | Chr | Location | OMIA gene details page | Other Links |
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ASIP | Vulpes vulpes | NW_020356514.1 (7857560..7853566) | ASIP | Homologene, Ensembl , NCBI gene |
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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 | Year Published | PubMed ID(s) | Acknowledgements |
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667 | Dark Standard Silver | ASIP | deletion, gross (>20) | Naturally occurring variant | VulVul2.2 | NW_020356514.1 | A 16.5-kb deletion resulting in "a 166-nt deletion in the Standard Silver fox cDNA, spanning the second exon ... .This deletion removes the start codon and entire signal peptide" | 1997 | 9054949 |
Cite this entry
Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2023). OMIA:000201-9627: 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.
2003 | Vage, D.I., Stavdal, E.B., Beheim, J., Klungland, H. : |
Why certain silver fox genotypes develop red hairs in their coat. Scientifur 27:79–83, 2003. | |
1997 | Vage, D.I., Lu, D.S., Klungland, H., Lien, S., Adalsteinsson, S., Cone, R.D. : |
A non-epistatic interaction of agouti and extension in the fox, Vulpes vulpes Nature Genetics 15:311-315, 1997. Pubmed reference: 9054949. DOI: 10.1038/ng0397-311. |
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