Phenotypes

Charlier et al. (2016): missense p.Tyr195Cys

In a segregation analysis of data from a breeding herd, Dolf et al. (1998) provided convincing evidence of autosomal recessive inheritance.

Information about ACAN related dwarfism in Bos indicus cattle was previously listed here and was moved to 'OMIA:001271-9915 : Dwarfism, ACAN-related in Bos indicus' [19/06/2023]

By sequencing the most likely functional positional candidate gene from the mapped region (see Mapping section), Littlejohn et al. (2014) identified a causal mutation as a "nonsynonymous SNP in exon 5 [that] encodes a p.Cys221Gly substitution highly conserved across vertebrates and other structurally related hormones, disrupting one of three disulphide bonds defining the three-dimensional (3D) structure of mature prolactin hormone" (ss10672894...

Jacinto et al. (2021): "Protein-coding exons of six positional candidate genes with known hair or hair follicle function were re-sequenced. This revealed a protein-changing variant in the KRT71 gene that encodes a type II keratin specifically expressed in the IRS of the hair follicle (c.281delTGTGCCCA; p.Met94AsnfsX14)." This variant was previously reported by Markey et al. (2010).

This was one of the first inherited lysosomal storage disorders to be studied extensively in animals. The pioneering work was done by Jolly and colleagues at Massy University in New Zealand, who developed an enzyme assay that enabled carriers to be distinguished from homozygote normals with a high degree of accuracy (Jolly et al., 1973). More than twenty years later, following the cloning and characterisation of the human gene for alpha mannos...

Abbitt et al. (1991) reported that bovine beta-mannosidosis, a lysosomal storage disease, is caused by a deficiency of beta-mannosidase. Affected neonatal calves are unable to rise with intention tremors, hidebound skin, slightly domed calvaria, slight prognathism, and narrow palpebral fissures. Their postmortem findings included variable dilatation of the lateral cerebral ventricles, marked pallor and paucity of white matter of the cerebrum a...

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...

Syndactyly has been reported in many breeds of cattle in many countries. Most of the documentation, however, concerns its occurrence in US Holsteins, where, as a result of the siring of more than 60,000 calves by a bull who was subsequently shown to be a carrier, the disorder attracted considerable attention (Anon., 1967). The possibility that artificial selection favouring heterozygotes may have contributed to the unacceptably high frequency ...