Additional PAX3 Variants for Dominant Blue Eyes in Cats.

Abstract excerpt

Since the recent publication of the first feline variant of the PAX3 (Paired Box 3) gene associated with blue eyes and minimal white spotting (DBE, Dominant Blue Eyes), three further variants of PAX3 have been reported in felines. However, these four variants do not account for all the different feline lines that exhibit DBE. Whole-genome sequencing using short-read and long-read technologies identified a large...

Topics

• Animals
• Cats
• Female
• PAX3 Transcription Factor
• Phenotype
• Eye Color
• Genes, Dominant
• Male