--- license: permission_granted topic_id: companion_breed_health_whippet_omia3990_dog category: companion-breed-health title: "Whippet — Retinal atrophy, progressive, Whippet (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/whippet_omia3990_3990.txt date_parsed: 2026-08-02 tokens_estimated: 114 verification: method: substring_match claims: 5 passed: 5 date: 2026-08-02 recovered: false path: companion-breed-health/companion_breed_health_whippet_omia3990_dog/01_companion_breed_health_whippet_omia3990_dog.md source_document: "OMIA — Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (University of Sydney)" citation: authority: "OMIA — Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (University of Sydney)" title: "Whippet — Retinal atrophy, progressive, Whippet (hereditary; OMIA-verified breed predisposition)" url: "https://omia.org/OMIA002085/9615/" 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
Whippet — Retinal atrophy, progressive, Whippet (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: Whippet (Dog)Disorder:Mode of inheritance: Autosomal recessiveClin feat: As reported by Somma et al. (2017), The retinal dystrophy reported here in Whippet dogs has a unique phenotype of an initial lack of ERG b-wave, development of retinal bullae then a progressive generalized retinal degeneration.Defect: yes
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.
- OMIA entry symbol: PRA-<em>CaBP4 </em>(Moffat et al., 2024) (no structured Phene_Gene link)
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.
- 2017. Characterization of a novel form of progressive retinal atrophy in Whippet dogs: a clinical, electroretinographic, and breeding study. Vet Ophthalmol — PubMed:PMID27896899 | DOI:10.1111/vop.12448 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
- 2021. The Blue Book: Ocular disorders presumed to be inherited in purebred dogs. 13th Edition. https://ofa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/ACVO-Blue-Book-2021.pdf — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
- 2024. Consensus guidelines for nomenclature of companion animal inherited retinal disorders. Vet Ophthalmol — PubMed:PMID38334230 | DOI:10.1111/vop.13185 — 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."