--- license: permission_granted topic_id: companion_breed_health_bengal_omia2542_cat category: companion-breed-health title: "Bengal — Hair morphology, glitter (hereditary; OMIA-verified breed predisposition)" lang: en source: "OMIA (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals, University of Sydney) breed-specific hereditary-disorder record, saved verbatim to source_file; C1 substring-verified. Pulled 2026-08-02 from local OMIA database dump." source_file: pdf-raw/breed-health/bengal_omia2542_2542.txt date_parsed: 2026-08-02 tokens_estimated: 80 verification: method: substring_match claims: 5 passed: 5 date: 2026-08-02 recovered: false path: companion-breed-health/companion_breed_health_bengal_omia2542_cat/01_companion_breed_health_bengal_omia2542_cat.md source_document: "OMIA — Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (University of Sydney)" citation: authority: "OMIA — Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (University of Sydney)" title: "Bengal — Hair morphology, glitter (hereditary; OMIA-verified breed predisposition)" url: "https://omia.org/OMIA001313/9685/" retrieved: "2026-08-02" ref: "OMIA breed-specific hereditary-disorder records (omia.org), derived from local OMIA database dump; dataset: https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70" doc_type: "academic animal-genetics database (breed-specific disorder entries)" needs_review: false
Bengal — Hair morphology, glitter (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: Bengal (Cat)Disorder:Mode of inheritance: Autosomal recessiveSummary: Glitter is a coat condition that softens hair texture and causes an iridescent sheen to the coat.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 398298879 (no symbol in OMIA GeneSynonym) — OMIA Phene_Gene
- OMIA molecular-genetics note: Kaelin et al. (2024) “discovered a 585-bp cat-specific Endogenous Retroviral Long Terminal Repeat (ERV1-3_FCa-type LTR) element insertion [omia.variant:1675] that was a strong candidate … . The LTR insertion site (chrD2: 79,707,475–79,707,478, felCat9) is defined by a 4-bp flanking direct repeat that is situated 287-bp upstream of an evolutionarily conserved <em>Fgfr2</em> super-enhancer (Kha…
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.
- 1999. A scanning electron microscopy study of glitter coat trait in the fur of the Bengal cat breed. Scanning — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
- 2024. Ancestry dynamics and trait selection in a designer cat breed. Curr Biol — PubMed:PMID38531359 | DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2024.02.075 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
- 2016. dbSUPER: a database of super-enhancers in mouse and human genome. Nucleic Acids Res — PubMed:PMID26438538 | DOI:10.1093/nar/gkv1002 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
verification_derived: method: derived_from_dataset source: "OMIA database dump (omia.xml, local); fields Gene/Variant/Article/OMIM" note: "Structured fields (gene, variant rsID/protein change, PubMed/DOI references, OMIM cross-link) extracted from OMIA dump and presented with first-hand values; not verbatim prose."