Phenotypes
Arthrogryposis, lethal syndrome — Lethal arthrogyposis syndrome
Splicing variant 10 bp upstream of the intron1/exon 2 boundary (c211-10C>G) at position 79,814,520 (Bos taurus assembly: BosTau6/UMD3), leading to skipping of exon 2 (Sartelet et al., 2015)
Coat colour, dominant white with bilateral deafness — Glass-eyed albino; German White Fleckvieh syndrome
Philipp et al. (2011) reported a "dominantly inherited syndrome associated with hypopigmentation, heterochromia irides, colobomatous eyes and bilateral hearing loss . . . in Fleckvieh cattle"
Haplotype with homozygous deficiency HH3, SMC2-related — Haplotype HH3
Using inferred haplotypes from the 1000-bull-genomes project, Hayes et al. (2013) announced the discovery of the likely HH3 causal mutation. Using exome capture and next-gen sequencing, McClure et al. (2014) confirmed and validated Hayes et al. (2013)'s causal mutation mutation as "a non-synonymous SNP (T/C) within exon 24 of the Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes 2 (SMC2) on Chromosome 8 at position 95,410,507 (UMD3.1). This polymorphism ...
Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, 5
Using the comparative positional candidate gene approach (based on similarities of the bovine clinical signs with the homologous human disorder, and the mapping results mentioned above), Houweling et al. (2006; Biochim Biophys Acta 1762:890-7) sequenced CLN5 genomic DNA and cDNA from affected and normal Devon cattle, identifying the causal mutation as a "single base duplication in exon 4 of bovine CLN5 (c.662dupG) . . . . This duplication resu...
Osteogenesis imperfecta, COL1A2-related
Jacinto et al. (2025) investigated two aborted half-sib Stabiliser calves with osteogenesis imperfecta. Whole genome sequencing identified a likely "heterozygous missense variant in exon 21 of [the functional candidate gene] COL1A2, located in the triple-helical region (Chr4:g.11792118G > A; c.1156G > A; p.Gly386Arg) [omia.variant:1837]. ... The variant may be a de novo mutation inherited from a germinal mosaic sire."
Osteogenesis imperfecta, type II, COL1A1-related
Bourneuf et al. (2017): a de novo likely causal variant is COL1A1 p.1049_1050delinsS in Fleckvieh Petersen et al. (2019): "Whole-genome sequencing revealed the presence of a missense mutation in the alpha 1 chain of collagen Type I (COL1A1), for which both calves were heterozygous. The variant resulted in the substitution of a glycine residue with serine in the triple helical domain of the protein; in this region, glycine normally occupies eve...
Pseudomyotonia, congenital — Congenital pseudomyotonia
Recognising the close resemblance of this disorder in Chianina cattle to Brody disease in humans, Drögemüller et al. (2008) illustrated the power of the candidate-gene approach by showing that this disorder in Chianina cattle is due to a missense mutation in the bovine version of the "Brody gene" - ATP2A1. Interestingly, another mutation in this same gene causes a far more severe set of clinical signs: congenital muscular dystonia 1 (OMIA 0014...