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 579 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 956 693 444 396 324 297 261 144 126 1626 5267
All Mendelian traits: disease and non-disease 426 310 145 146 128 63 138 83 26 509 1974
with at least one known likely causal variant 349 210 114 70 64 48 57 25 17 277 1231
Mendelian diseases 387 272 117 115 92 49 98 65 12 215 1422
with at least one known likely causal variant 323 191 94 55 46 38 34 18 8 90 897
Potential models for human disease 615 350 281 222 139 161 88 84 58 847 2845
Variants (mutations)
All known likely causal variants for all Mendelian traits: disease and non-disease 542 275 197 69 92 108 72 22 21 236 1634
All known likely causal variants for Mendelian diseases 497 248 149 52 52 91 39 12 9 72 1221

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