--- license: permission_granted topic_id: companion_breed_health_flemish_giant_rabbit_omia2841_rabbit category: companion-breed-health title: "Flemish Giant (Rabbit) — Yellow fat (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 2026-08-23 from local OMIA database dump." source_file: pdf-raw/breed-health/flemish_giant_rabbit_omia2841_2841.txt date_parsed: 2026-08-23 tokens_estimated: 80 verification: method: substring_match claims: 5 passed: 5 date: 2026-08-23 recovered: false path: companion-breed-health/companion_breed_health_flemish_giant_rabbit_omia2841_rabbit/01_companion_breed_health_flemish_giant_rabbit_omia2841_rabbit.md source_document: "OMIA — Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (University of Sydney)" citation: authority: "OMIA — Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (University of Sydney)" title: "Flemish Giant (Rabbit) — Yellow fat (hereditary; OMIA-verified breed predisposition)" url: "https://omia.org/OMIA001079/9986/" retrieved: "2026-08-23" 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
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."---
Flemish Giant (Rabbit) — Yellow fat (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: Flemish Giant (Rabbit)Disorder:Mode of inheritance: Autosomal recessiveSummary: See Robinson (1958, p. 313).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 389110988 (no symbol in OMIA GeneSynonym) — OMIA Phene_Gene
- OMIA molecular-genetics note: Strychalski et al. (2015): "novel AAT-deletion mutation at codon 248 of the BCO2 gene, which has been found in homozygous yellow-fat rabbits. The deletion mutation, located at the beginning of exon 6, results in the absence of asparagine in protein"
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.
- 1933. The linkage relations of yellow fat in rabbits. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A — PubMed:PMID16577589 | DOI:10.1073/pnas.19.11.947 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
- 1965. "Yellow fat" in the wild rabbit. Nature — PubMed:PMID4161266 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
- 1958. Genetic studies of the rabbit. Bibliographia Genetica — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
- 2015. A novel AAT-deletion mutation in the coding sequence of the BCO2 gene in yellow-fat rabbits. J Appl Genet — PubMed:PMID26002694 | DOI:10.1007/s13353-015-0290-9 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
- 1930. The inheritance of yellow-fat in rabbits. Verh 1 Internat Kaninchenzuchter Kongresses, Leipzig — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
- 1946. Fat colour and fur colour in different varieties of rabbit. J Genet — PubMed:PMID20995079 | DOI:10.1007/BF02986253 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
- 1969. Aetiology of "yellow fat" disease (pansteatitis) in the wild rabbit. J Comp Pathol — PubMed:PMID5348109 | DOI:10.1016/0021-9975(69)90046-2 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
- 1928. Yellow fat in rabbits, a linked character?. Verh. V. Intern. Kongr. Vererbungswissenschaft — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
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:611740 (type: gene) — OMIA Group_OMIM (via OMIA_ID)