OMIA:000915-9031 : Feather colour, silver in Gallus gallus (chicken)

In other species: Japanese quail

Categories: Pigmentation phene

Possibly relevant human trait(s) and/or gene(s) (MIM number): 156845 (gene)

Links to MONDO diseases: No links.

Mendelian trait/disorder: unknown

Considered a defect: unknown

Species-specific description: Redundant - this entry has been merged with OMIA:000370-9031 : Feather colour, SLC45A2-related in Gallus gallus [14/11/2023] as "S*S (Silver), S*N (wild type/gold), and S*AL (sex-linked imperfect albinism) form a series of alleles at the S (Silver) locus on chicken (Gallus gallus) chromosome Z" (Gunnarsson et al., 2007)

Genetic engineering: Unknown
Have human generated variants been created, e.g. through genetic engineering and gene editing

Cite this entry

Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2024). OMIA:000915-9031: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70

Reference

2007 Gunnarsson, U., Hellström, A.R., Tixier-Boichard, M., Minvielle, F., Bed'hom, B., Ito, S., Jensen, P., Rattink, A., Vereijken, A., Andersson, L. :
Mutations in SLC45A2 cause plumage color variation in chicken and Japanese quail. Genetics 175:867-77, 2007. Pubmed reference: 17151254. DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.063107.

Edit History


  • Created by Frank Nicholas on 10 Nov 2009
  • Changed by Frank Nicholas on 10 Oct 2011
  • Changed by Frank Nicholas on 09 Dec 2011
  • Changed by Frank Nicholas on 02 Mar 2012
  • Changed by Frank Nicholas on 10 Dec 2017
  • Changed by Imke Tammen2 on 10 Nov 2023
  • Changed by Imke Tammen2 on 14 Nov 2023
  • Changed by Imke Tammen2 on 09 Feb 2024