OMIA:002472-9796 : Ewe neck in Equus caballus (horse)

Categories: Muscle phene

Single-gene trait/disorder: no

Mode of inheritance: Multifactorial

Disease-related: yes

Key variant known: no

Species-specific name: also known as Swan Neck, Turkey Neck, and Upside-down Neck

Species-specific description: Ripolles et al. :2020): "Ewe Neck is one of the disqualifying morphological defects in PRE [Pura Raza Español] horses."

Inheritance: Ripolles et al (2020) estimated a heritability coefficient for Ewe Neck score ranging from 0.23 to 0.34.

Breed: Purebred Spanish (Horse) (VBO_0001056).
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).

Cite this entry

Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2024). OMIA:002472-9796: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70

Reference

2020 Ripolles, M., Sánchez-Guerrero, M.J., Perdomo-González, D.I., Azor, P., Valera, M. :
Survey of risk factors and genetic characterization of ewe neck in a world population of Pura Raza Español horses. Animals (Basel) 10:1789, 2020. Pubmed reference: 33019702. DOI: 10.3390/ani10101789.

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