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 635 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 974 700 450 403 332 305 268 146 128 1761 5467
All single-gene traits: disease and non-disease 432 311 146 148 131 64 139 84 26 533 2014
with at least one known likely causal variant 354 211 117 72 67 48 57 26 17 290 1259
Single-gene diseases 392 273 118 116 94 50 99 66 12 221 1441
with at least one known likely causal variant 327 192 96 56 48 38 34 19 8 94 912
Potential models for human disease 627 355 284 226 145 165 90 86 59 897 2934
Variants (mutations)
All known likely causal variants for all single-gene traits: disease and non-disease 556 280 200 70 95 112 72 22 21 248 1676
All known likely causal variants for single-gene diseases 509 250 151 52 54 95 39 12 9 74 1245

Collaborators