Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) — Osteopetrosis (hereditary; OMIA-verified species predisposition)

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Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) — Osteopetrosis (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: Osteopetrosis
• Summary: See Robinson (1958, pp. 348-349).

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: os (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.

• 1991. Congenitally osteosclerotic (os/os) rabbits are not cured by bone marrow transplantation from normal littermates. Am J Anat — PubMed:PMID1759690 | DOI:10.1002/aja.1001920307 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 1948. Hereditary osteopetrosis of the rabbit. Fed Proc — PubMed:PMID18932635 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 1948. Hereditary osteopetrosis of the rabbit; general features and course of disease; genetic aspects. J Exp Med — PubMed:PMID18103397 | DOI:10.1084/jem.88.6.579 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 1948. Hereditary osteopetrosis of the rabbit; X-ray, hematologic, and chemical observations. J Exp Med — PubMed:PMID18103398 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 1950. Hereditary osteopetrosis of the rabbit. III. Pathologic observations; skeletal abnormalities. J Exp Med — PubMed:PMID14784539 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 1950. Hereditary osteopetrosis of the rabbit. IV. Pathologic observations; general features. J Exp Med — PubMed:PMID14784540 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 1986. The osteopetrotic rabbit: general and skeletal features of a new outbred stock. Bone — PubMed:PMID3790375 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 1987. The osteopetrotic rabbit: skeletal cytology and ultrastructure. Am J Anat — PubMed:PMID3578090 | DOI:10.1002/aja.1001780310 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 1989. Treatment of congenital osteopetrosis in the rabbit with high-dose 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D. J Bone Miner Res — PubMed:PMID2718779 | DOI:10.1002/jbmr.5650040109 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 1990. Relationship of abnormalities in dental and skeletal development in the osteopetrotic (os) rabbit. J Oral Pathol Med — PubMed:PMID2313606 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 1990. Defective osteoclast differentiation and function in the osteopetrotic (os) rabbit. Am J Anat — PubMed:PMID2393000 | DOI:10.1002/aja.1001880412 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• 1990. Effects of 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D on osteoclast number and cytochemistry in normal and osteopetrotic (os) rabbits. Am J Anat — PubMed:PMID2148052 | DOI:10.1002/aja.1001890309 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
• (1 additional references in OMIA)

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:259700 (type: trait) — OMIA Group_OMIM (via OMIA_ID)
• OMIM:259710 (type: trait) — OMIA Group_OMIM (via OMIA_ID)
• OMIM:259720 (type: trait) — OMIA Group_OMIM (via OMIA_ID)
• OMIM:259730 (type: trait) — OMIA Group_OMIM (via OMIA_ID)
• OMIM:600329 (type: trait) — OMIA Group_OMIM (via OMIA_ID)