Angora (Rabbit) — Hair, long (hereditary; OMIA-verified breed predisposition)

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Angora (Rabbit) — Hair, long (hereditary; OMIA-verified breed predisposition)

Source: first-hand OMIA (University of Sydney) breed-specific hereditary-disorder record, saved verbatim to source_file; every claim below is a C1 byte-substring of it.

Claims

• Breed: Angora (Rabbit)
• Disorder:
• Mode of inheritance: Autosomal recessive
• Summary: See Robinson (1958, pp. 292-297).
• Defect: no

Associated gene(s)

Derived from OMIA database dump (omia.xml, local); structured field, not verbatim prose. First-hand values below are verbatim substrings of the topic's pdf-raw/omia/<phene_id>.txt source file.

• Gene: Entrez Gene ID 389093243 (no symbol in OMIA GeneSynonym) — OMIA Phene_Gene
• OMIA molecular-genetics note: Fatima et al. (2023) "discovered that the homozygous missense mutation T19234C within Fgf5 might contribute to the long-hair trait of Angora rabbits by reducing its receptor binding capacity."

Evidence (references)

Derived from OMIA database dump (omia.xml, local); structured field, not verbatim prose. First-hand values below are verbatim substrings of the topic's pdf-raw/omia/<phene_id>.txt source file.

• 1924. Linkage of Dutch, English, and Angora in Rabbits. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A — PubMed:PMID16576789 | DOI:10.1073/pnas.10.3.107 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 1905. Mendelism. Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 2006. A first-generation microsatellite-based integrated genetic and cytogenetic map for the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and localization of angora and albino. Anim Genet — PubMed:PMID16879342 | DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2052.2006.01462.x — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 1958. Genetic studies of the rabbit. Bibliographia Genetica — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 2000. [Some misunderstandings about the angora rabbit]. Tijdschr Diergeneeskd — PubMed:PMID11060929 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 2001. Scanning electron microscopic study of different hair types in various breeds of rabbits. Folia Morphol (Warsz) — PubMed:PMID11234696 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 2007. Characteristics of Angora rabbit fiber using optical fiber diameter analyzer. J Anim Sci — PubMed:PMID17644779 | DOI:10.2527/jas.2007-0109 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 2009. Genetic description of a divergent selection experiment in Angora rabbits with overlapping generations. J Anim Breed Genet — PubMed:PMID19646147 | DOI:10.1111/j.1439-0388.2008.00769.x — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 2010. Genetics of fibre production and fleece characteristics in small ruminants, Angora rabbit and South American camelids. Animal — PubMed:PMID22444694 | DOI:10.1017/S1751731110000029 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 1903. The heredity of 'Angora' coat in mammals. Science — PubMed:PMID17844480 | DOI:10.1126/science.18.467.760.b — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 2018. MicroRNAs Profiling Identifies miR-125a and Its Target Gene Wnt2 in Skins of Different Haired Rabbits. Front Genet — PubMed:PMID30619457 | DOI:10.3389/fgene.2018.00628 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 2019. Analyses of histological and transcriptome differences in the skin of short-hair and long-hair rabbits. BMC Genomics — PubMed:PMID30770723 | DOI:10.1186/s12864-019-5503-x — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• (8 additional references in OMIA)

Comparative medicine (human OMIM)

Derived from OMIA database dump (omia.xml, local); structured field, not verbatim prose. First-hand values below are verbatim substrings of the topic's pdf-raw/omia/<phene_id>.txt source file.

• OMIM:190330 (type: trait) — OMIA Group_OMIM (via OMIA_ID)
• OMIM:165190 (type: gene) — OMIA Group_OMIM (via OMIA_ID)