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OMIA:000894-9940 : Scurs in Ovis aries (sheep)

In other species: taurine cattle , indicine cattle (zebu)

Categories: Craniofacial phene

Single-gene trait/disorder: unknown

Disease-related: no

Cross-species summary: Scurs are horn-like appendages. In contrast to horns, scurs are not attached to the skull.

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Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2025). OMIA:000894-9940: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70

Reference

2025 Zhang, S., Li, H., Meng, Z., Liu, F., Hu, Y., Yang, H., Mei, Q., You, X., Wang, Q., Pan, Z., Yang, Y. :
Expression profiling, functional characterization, and potential functional variants of the COL7A1 gene in sheep horn development. Genomics 117:111133, 2025. Pubmed reference: 41109482. DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2025.111133.

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  • Created by Imke Tammen2 on 20 Oct 2025