OMIA:001569-9031 : Feather colour, dark brown in Gallus gallus (chicken) |
Categories: Pigmentation phene
Links to possible relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s) in OMIM: 602229 (gene) , 609136 (trait) , 611584 (trait) , 613266 (trait)
Mendelian trait/disorder: yes
Mode of inheritance: Autosomal recessive
Disease-related: no
Key variant known: yes
Year key variant first reported: 2011
Species-specific name: Dark brown
Species-specific symbol: DB
Species-specific description: Gunnarsson et al. (2011): "The Dark brown (DB) mutation in chickens reduces expression of black eumelanin and enhances expression of red pheomelanin, but only in certain parts of the plumage."
Molecular basis: Gunnarsson et al. (2011) reported "genetic evidence that an 8.3-kb deletion upstream of the SOX10 transcription start site is the causal mutation underlying the DB [dark brown] phenotype". Aided by improved sequencing techniques and a better reference genome assembly (GRCg6a, compared with Galgal3), Zhu et al. (2022) showed that light yellow plumage segregating in the F1 of a cross between Rhode Island Red and White Leghorn is due to the same deletion (now characterised as 7638 bp) as reported by Gunnarsson et al. (2011).
Associated gene:
| Symbol | Description | Species | Chr | Location | OMIA gene details page | Other Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOX10 | SRY (sex determining region Y)-box 10 | Gallus gallus | 1 | NC_052532.1 (51095091..51104261) | SOX10 | Homologene, Ensembl , NCBI gene |
Variants
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 661 | Dark brown/yellow plumage | SOX10 | deletion, gross (>20) | Naturally occurring variant | GRCg6a | 1 | g.51035106_51042744delinsGGTGCGGTGA | Gunnarsson et al. (2011): "an 8.3-kb deletion upstream of SOX10" Zhu et al. (2022): "the genome region from 51,035,106 bp to 51,042,744 bp is missing in LY [yellow] chickens, with this region showing a novel 10 bp insertion (GGTGCGGTGA)" | 2011 | 21210960 |
Cite this entry
Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2022). OMIA:001569-9031: 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.
| 2022 | Zhu, T., Liu, M., Peng, S., Zhang, X., Chen, Y., Lv, X., Yang, W., Li, K., Zhang, J., Wang, H., Li, H., Ning, Z., Wang, L., Qu, L. : |
| A deletion upstream of SOX10 causes light yellow plumage colour in chicken. Genes (Basel) 13:327, 2022. Pubmed reference: 35205371. DOI: 10.3390/genes13020327. | |
| 2020 | Andersson, L., Bed’hom, B., Chuong, CM., Inaba, M.Inaba, M., Okimoto, R.Okimoto, R., Tixier-Boichard, M. : |
| The genetic basis for pigmentation phenotypes in poultry In S. E. Aggrey, H. Zhou, M. Tixier-Boichard, & D. D. Rhoads (Eds.), Advances in Poultry Genetics and Genomics. Cambridge, UK: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing. , 2020. | |
| 2019 | Nie, C., Ban, L., Ning, Z., Qu, L. : |
| Feather colour affects the aggressive behaviour of chickens with the same genotype on the dominant white (I) locus. PLoS One 14:e0215921, 2019. Pubmed reference: 31048862. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215921. | |
| 2011 | Gunnarsson, U., Kerje, S., Bed'hom, B., Sahlqvist, A.S., Ekwall, O., Tixier-Boichard, M., Kämpe, O., Andersson, L. : |
| The Dark brown plumage color in chickens is caused by an 8.3-kb deletion upstream of SOX10. Pigment Cell Melanoma Res 24:268-74, 2011. Pubmed reference: 21210960. DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2011.00825.x. | |
| 1993 | Carefoot, WC. : |
| Further studies of linkage and mappings of the loci of genes in group 3 on chromosome 1 of the domestic fowl. Br Poult Sci 34:205-9, 1993. Pubmed reference: 8467400. DOI: 10.1080/00071669308417576. | |
| 1972 | Moore, JW., Smyth, JR. : |
| Genetic factors associated with the plumage pattern of the barred Fayoumi. Poult Sci 51:1149-56, 1972. Pubmed reference: 4647577. DOI: 10.3382/ps.0511149. |
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- Created by Frank Nicholas on 28 May 2011
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- Changed by Frank Nicholas on 10 Mar 2022