In other species: grass carp , rainbow trout , African clawed frog , grivet , Bornean orangutan , dog , American black bear , brown bear , raccoon , Sumatran tiger , hippopotamus , American bison , banteng , taurine cattle , hares , golden hamster , North American deer mouse , meadow voles , bush rat , Australian dusky field rat , long-haired rat , nutria , gray short-tailed opossum , northern pocket gopher , giant uromys , Arizona pocket mouse , rufous rat-kangaroo , turkey vulture , eastern chipmunk , Campbell's desert hamster , fishing cat , Bennett's wallaby , Golden-bellied Water Rat , western chorus frog , brown desert mouse , Ash-gray Pseudomys , Heath Pseudomys

Categories: Pigmentation phene

Single-gene trait/disorder: yes

Mode of inheritance: Autosomal recessive

Disease-related: no

Key variant known: no

Cross-species summary: Congenital lack of pigment in all parts of the body. See also Skin colour, albinism, generic

Species-specific description: See also: OMIA:001821-9940 : Coat colour, albinism, oculocutaneous type IV in Ovis aries (sheep) for further detail on SLC45A2-related albinism in Suffolk sheep.

Breeds: Icelandic Horse (Horse) (VBO_0000991), Karakul (Sheep) (VBO_0001461), Suffolk (Sheep) (VBO_0001627).
Breeds in which the phene has been documented. (If a likely causal variant has been documented for the phene, see the variant table breeds in which the variant has been reported).