OMIA:000375-8932 : Feather colour, white spotting, EDNRB2-related in Columba livia (rock pigeon)

In other species: Mallard , Japanese quail

Categories: Pigmentation phene

Links to MONDO diseases: No links.

Mendelian trait/disorder: yes

Considered a defect: no

Key variant known: yes

Year key variant first reported: 2023

Cross-species summary: Renamed from 'Feather colour, panda/dotted white' [12/08/2023], also called piebald

Species-specific name: Piebalding, piebald

Mapping: Maclary et al. (2021) used quantitative trait locus mapping to investigate eye colour in pigeons and identified two loci that contribute to piebalding. Maclary et al. (2023): "Using a combination of quantitative trait locus mapping in F2 laboratory crosses and genome-wide association analysis, we identify a locus [on linkage group 15] associated with piebalding across many pigeon breeds. This shared locus harbors a candidate gene, EDNRB2 ... . "

Molecular basis: Maclary et al. (2023) "discover multiple distinct haplotypes at the EDNRB2 locus in piebald pigeons, which include a mix of protein-coding, noncoding, and structural variants that are associated with depigmentation in specific plumage regions." The authors "identified four haplotype groups ... with distinct patterns of shared SNP genotypes that correlate with piebalding in specific body regions." Likely causal variants are reported for each group: Group1: p.(R290C) Group2: p.(A42E) Group3: regulatory variants in conserved non-coding elements (nor further specified) Group4: tandem duplication of a 37-kb region spanning from intron 1 of VAMP7 to just 5’ of EDNRB2, one of the copies is considered nonfunctional An additional variant in the EDNRB2 was identified as the likely causal variant for recessive white (white plumage and “bull” (dark brown to black) eye colour): scaffold 507:11167700C>T; p.(E256K).

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
EDNRB2 Columba livia - no genomic information (-..-) EDNRB2 Ensembl

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 Inferred EVA rsID Year Published PubMed ID(s) Acknowledgements
1632 Piebald EDNRB2 Group 4 duplication Naturally occurring variant tandem duplication of a 37-kb region spanning from intron 1 of VAMP7 to just 5’ of EDNRB2 2023 37546953
1631 Piebald EDNRB2 Group2 missense Naturally occurring variant p.(A42E) 2023 37546953
1630 Piebald EDNRB2 Group1 missense Naturally occurring variant p.(R290C) 2023 37546953
1633 Recessive white and bull eye EDNRB2 missense Naturally occurring variant scaffold 507 g.11167700C>T p.(E256K) 2023 37546953

Cite this entry

Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2023). OMIA:000375-8932: 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.

2023 Maclary, E.T., Wauer, R., Phillips, B., Brown, A., Boer, E.F., Samani, A.M., Shapiro, M.D. :
An allelic series at the EDNRB2 locus controls diverse piebalding patterns in the domestic pigeon. bioRxiv , 2023. Pubmed reference: 37546953. DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.26.550625.
Maclary, E.T., Wauer, R., Phillips, B., Brown, A., Boer, E.F., Samani, A.M., Shapiro, M.D. :
An allelic series at the EDNRB2 locus controls diverse piebalding patterns in the domestic pigeon. PLoS Genet 19:e1010880, 2023. Pubmed reference: 37862332. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010880.
2021 Maclary, E.T., Phillips, B., Wauer, R., Boer, E.F., Bruders, R., Gilvarry, T., Holt, C., Yandell, M., Shapiro, M.D. :
Two genomic loci control three eye colors in the domestic pigeon (Columba livia). Mol Biol Evol 38:5376-5390, 2021. Pubmed reference: 34459920. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab260.

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