OMIA:002837-9646 : Coat colour, brown and white, BACE2-related in Ailuropoda melanoleuca (giant panda)

Categories: Pigmentation phene

Links to possible relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s) in OMIM: 605668 (gene)

Single-gene trait/disorder: yes

Mode of inheritance: Autosomal recessive

Disease-related: no

Key variant known: yes

Year key variant first reported: 2024

Species-specific description: Brown-and-white giant pandas are distinct coat color mutants first reported in 1985 in the Qinling Mountains, Shaanxi, China (Guan et al., 2024).

Molecular basis: Guan et al. (2024) "identified the genetic basis for [the white and brown] coat color variation using a combination of field ecological data, population genomic data, and a CRISPR-Cas9 knockout mouse model. [The aurhors] de novo assembled a long-read-based giant panda genome and resequenced the genomes of 35 giant pandas, including two brown pandas and two family trios associated with a brown panda. [The authors] identified a homozygous 25-bp deletion in the first exon of Bace2, a gene encoding amyloid precursor protein cleaving enzyme, as the most likely genetic basis for brown-and-white coat color. This deletion was further validated using PCR and Sanger sequencing of another 192 black giant pandas and CRISPR-Cas9 edited knockout mice. [The] investigation revealed that this mutation reduced the number and size of melanosomes of the hairs in knockout mice and possibly in the brown panda, further leading to the hypopigmentation."

Associated gene:

Symbol Description Species Chr Location OMIA gene details page Other Links
BACE2 beta-secretase 2 Ailuropoda melanoleuca 1 NC_048218.1 (4466610..4384292) BACE2 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
1676 Coat colour, brown white BACE2 deletion, gross (>20) Naturally occurring variant 1 c.176_200del Published as c.176_200delTCGCCCTGGAGCCCGCCGGCGGCGC; g.4545815_4545839del 2024 38437540

Cite this entry

Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2024). OMIA:002837-9646: 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.

2024 Guan, D., Sun, S., Song, L., Zhao, P., Nie, Y., Huang, X., Zhou, W., Yan, L., Lei, Y., Hu, Y., Wei, F. :
Taking a color photo: A homozygous 25-bp deletion in Bace2 may cause brown-and-white coat color in giant pandas. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 121:e2317430121, 2024. Pubmed reference: 38437540. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2317430121.
2010 Nicholls, H. :
Mystery of the giant brown panda deepens. Nature , 2010. DOI: 10.1038/news.2010.19.

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