Welcome to OMIA

 

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) is a catalogue/compendium of inherited disorders, other (single-locus) traits, and associated genes and variants in 591 animal species (other than human and mouse and rats and zebrafish and western clawed frog, which have their own resources) co-authored by curator Associate Professor Imke Tammen and founder Professor Frank Nicholas of the University of Sydney, Australia, with help from many people over the years. OMIA information is stored in a database that contains textual information and references, as well as links to relevant PubMed and Gene records at the NCBI, to OMIM, Ensembl, Mondo Disease Ontology and the Vertebrate Breed Ontology (VBO).

OMIA is manually curated by a team of specialists. If you see an error or wish to submit an entry, please contact us.

To join the OMIA Support Group, register at OMIA Support Group.

From 1st September 2011, the OMIA ID is binomial. To better conform to global standards, in March 2023 the binomial format was changed slightly by replacing a space with a colon, i.e. OMIA:xxxxxx-yyyy.., where xxxxxx is the 6-digit number for a trait/disorder, and yyyy.. is the NCBI species taxonomy id (usually four digits, but sometimes longer).

To report a suspected or confirmed inherited disease in Australian animals for surveillance, visit the Anstee Hub for Inherited Diseases in Animals (AHIDA).

We have recently launched the Pioneers of Mendelian Inheritance in Animals project (PMIA), an exploration of the history of research into Mendelian inheritance in animals.

Summary

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Traits (phenes)
All traits: disease and non-disease 956 695 445 398 325 298 261 144 126 1651 5299
All Mendelian traits: disease and non-disease 426 310 145 147 129 64 138 83 26 512 1980
with at least one known likely causal variant 349 210 115 71 65 48 57 25 17 280 1237
Mendelian diseases 387 272 117 115 93 50 98 65 12 217 1426
with at least one known likely causal variant 323 191 94 55 47 38 34 18 8 92 900
Potential models for human disease 615 351 281 224 140 163 88 84 58 860 2864
Variants (mutations)
All known likely causal variants for all Mendelian traits: disease and non-disease 542 275 198 70 93 108 72 22 21 238 1639
All known likely causal variants for Mendelian diseases 497 248 149 52 53 91 39 12 9 73 1223

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