--- license: permission_granted topic_id: companion_breed_health_burmese_omia2929_cat category: companion-breed-health title: "Burmese — Coat colour, ticked (Abyssinian) (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/burmese_omia2929_2929.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_burmese_omia2929_cat/01_companion_breed_health_burmese_omia2929_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: "Burmese — Coat colour, ticked (Abyssinian) (hereditary; OMIA-verified breed predisposition)" url: "https://omia.org/OMIA001484/9685/" 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
Burmese — Coat colour, ticked (Abyssinian) (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: Burmese (Cat)Disorder:Mode of inheritance: Autosomal dominantSummary: Ticked is the term applied to the non-tabby, agouti coat colour pattern that is the trade mark of Abyssinian cats. Its traditional symbol is T(a).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 389727502 (no symbol in OMIA GeneSynonym) — OMIA Phene_Gene
- OMIA molecular-genetics note: Lyons et al. (2021; published 29 March): "The cat reference genome (Cinnamon, the Abyssinian) has the ticked phenotype and the variant dataset and coat phenotypes from the 99 Lives Cat Genome Consortium (195 cats) were used to identify candidate genes and variants associated with the Ticked locus. ... two variants in Dickkopf Wnt Signaling Pathway Inhibitor 4 (DKK4), a p.Cys63Tyr (B1:4[2]621481, c…
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.
- 1988. Tabby pattern alleles of the domestic cat. J Hered — PubMed:PMID3367033 | DOI:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a110438 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
- 2006. The Tabby cat locus maps to feline chromosome B1. Anim Genet — PubMed:PMID16879352 | DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2052.2006.01458.x — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
- 2010. Defining and mapping mammalian coat pattern genes: multiple genomic regions implicated in domestic cat stripes and spots. Genetics — PubMed:PMID19858284 | DOI:10.1534/genetics.109.109629 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
- 2021. Mining the 99 lives cat genome sequencing consortium database implicates genes and variants for the Ticked locus in domestic cats (Felis catus). Anim Genet — PubMed:PMID33780570 | DOI:10.1111/age.13059 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
- 2021. Developmental genetics of color pattern establishment in cats. Nat Commun — PubMed:PMID34493721 | DOI:10.1038/s41467-021-25348-2 — 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."