OMIA:001652-9627 : Coat colour, platinum in Vulpes vulpes (red fox) |
In other species: North American deer mouse
Categories: Pigmentation phene
Links to possible relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s) in OMIM: 164920 (gene)
Mendelian trait/disorder: yes
Mode of inheritance: Autosomal incomplete dominant
Disease-related: no
Key variant known: yes
Year key variant first reported: 2015
Inheritance: Johnson et al. (2015): "The platinum phenotype is inherited as an incompletely dominant trait; platinum foxes are heterozygous, as homozygosity for the platinum allele is embryonic lethal (Mohr & Tuff 1939; Cole & Shackelford 1943; Belyaevet al.1975)."
Molecular basis: "A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) was identified at the first nucleotide of KIT intron 17 in the platinum fox. In platinum foxes, the A allele of the SNP disrupts the donor splice site and causes exon 17, which is part of a segment that encodes a conserved tyrosine kinase domain, to be skipped" (Johnson et al., 2015)
Associated gene:
| Symbol | Description | Species | Chr | Location | OMIA gene details page | Other Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KIT | Vulpes vulpes | NW_020356559.1 (6357689..6432009) | KIT | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1525 | Platinum coat colour | KIT | splicing | Naturally occurring variant | G>A variant in the first nucleotide of KIT intron 17 causes skipping of exon 17 | 2015 | 25662789 |
Cite this entry
Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2023). OMIA:001652-9627: 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.
| 2016 | Kukekova, A.V., Johnson, J.L., Kharlamova, A.V., Vladimirova, A.V., Shepeleva, D.V., Gulevich, R.G., Trut, L.N. : |
| Georgian white coat color of red fox (Vulpes vulpes) maps to fox chromosome 2 in the region containing KIT gene. Anim Genet 47:514-5, 2016. Pubmed reference: 27329365. DOI: 10.1111/age.12439. | |
| 2015 | Johnson, J.L., Kozysa, A., Kharlamova, A.V., Gulevich, R.G., Perelman, P.L., Fong, H.W., Vladimirova, A.V., Oskina, I.N., Trut, L.N., Kukekova, A.V. : |
| Platinum coat color in red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is caused by a mutation in an autosomal copy of KIT. Anim Genet 46:190-9, 2015. Pubmed reference: 25662789. DOI: 10.1111/age.12270. | |
| 1975 | Belyaev, D.K., Trut, L.N., Ruvinsky, A.O. : |
| Genetics of the W locus in foxes and expression of its lethal effects. J Hered 66:331-8, 1975. Pubmed reference: 1219056. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a108643. | |
| 1947 | Johansson, I. : |
| Inheritance of the platinum and white face characters in the fox. Hereditas 33:152–174, 1947. | |
| 1943 | Cole, L.J., Shackelford, R.M. : |
| White spotting in the fox. The American Naturalist 77:289–321, 1943. | |
| 1939 | Mohr, O.L., Tuff, P. : |
| The Norwegian platinum fox: a coat color mutation having great economic value. Journal of Heredity 30:227-234, 1939. |
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- Created by Frank Nicholas on 29 Apr 2015
- Changed by Frank Nicholas on 29 Apr 2015
- Changed by Imke Tammen2 on 20 Jan 2023