--- license: permission_granted topic_id: companion_species_health_leg_weakness_rabbit category: companion-species-health title: "Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) — Leg weakness (hereditary; OMIA-verified species predisposition)" lang: en source: "OMIA (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals, University of Sydney) species-specific hereditary-disorder record, saved verbatim to source_file; C1 substring-verified. Pulled 2026-08-24 from local OMIA database dump." source_file: pdf-raw/species-health/rabbit_leg_weakness_4476.txt date_parsed: 2026-08-24 tokens_estimated: 278 verification: method: substring_match claims: 5 passed: 5 date: 2026-08-24 recovered: false path: companion-species-health/companion_species_health_leg_weakness_rabbit/01_companion_species_health_leg_weakness_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: "Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) — Leg weakness (hereditary; OMIA-verified species predisposition)" url: "https://omia.org/OMIA000585/9986/" retrieved: "2026-08-24" ref: "OMIA species-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 (species-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." 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."---
Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) — Leg weakness (hereditary; OMIA-verified species predisposition)
Source: first-hand OMIA (University of Sydney) species-specific hereditary-disorder record, saved verbatim to source_file; every claim below is a C1 byte-substring of it.
Claims
Species: Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)Disorder: Leg weaknessMode of inheritance: Joosten et al. (1981): "Pedigree analysis and genetic mating tests showed that, in contrast to published reports, the disease is not determined by a single recessive gene with complete expressivity. The underlying genetic system is composed of one recessive gene with reduced expressivity or of more genes with the probable involvement of environmental factors."Clin feat: Joosten et al. (1981): "Femurs of abnormal limbs displayed endotorsion of the shaft and anteversion of the neck as the main features. Endotorsion of the femur was associated with exotorsion of the tibia. Dislocation of the hip was not observed. There was no abnormnal laxity of the joint capsule or the ligamentaum teres."Pathology: Joosten et al. (1981): "A study on muscle fiber diameter showed that fibers of splayleg animals were in general smaller, particularly in the semitendinosus. Atypical mitochondria of muscles were observed in all rabbits, but more frequently in splayleg animals."
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.
- 1981. Splayleg: a spontaneous limb defect in rabbits. Genetics, gross anatomy, and microscopy. Teratology — PubMed:PMID7302875 | DOI:10.1002/tera.1420240110 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
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.
- 1981. Splayleg: a spontaneous limb defect in rabbits. Genetics, gross anatomy, and microscopy. Teratology — PubMed:PMID7302875 | DOI:10.1002/tera.1420240110 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article