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Article Dans Une Revue Genetics Selection Evolution Année : 2015

A missense mutation in the agouti signaling protein gene (ASIP) is associated with the no light points coat phenotype in donkeys

Marie Abitbol
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Romain Legrand
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Laurent Tiret

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Abstract BackgroundSeven donkey breeds are recognized by the French studbook and are characterized by a black, bay or grey coat colour including light cream-to-white points (LP). Occasionally, Normand bay donkeys give birth to dark foals that lack LP and display the no light points (NLP) pattern. This pattern is more frequent and officially recognized in American miniature donkeys. The LP (or pangare) phenotype resembles that of the light bellied agouti pattern in mouse, while the NLP pattern resembles that of the mammalian recessive black phenotype; both phenotypes are associated with the agouti signaling protein gene (ASIP).FindingsWe used a panel of 127 donkeys to identify a recessive missense c.349 T > C variant in ASIP that was shown to be in complete association with the NLP phenotype. This variant results in a cysteine to arginine substitution at position 117 in the ASIP protein. This cysteine is highly-conserved among vertebrate ASIP proteins and was previously shown by mutagenesis experiments to lie within a functional site. Altogether, our results strongly support that the identified mutation is causative of the NLP phenotype.ConclusionsThus, we propose to name the c.[349 T > C] allele in donkeys, the anlp allele, which enlarges the panel of coat colour alleles in donkeys and ASIP recessive loss-of-function alleles in animals.
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Marie Abitbol, Romain Legrand, Laurent Tiret. A missense mutation in the agouti signaling protein gene (ASIP) is associated with the no light points coat phenotype in donkeys. Genetics Selection Evolution, 2015, 47 (1), pp.28. ⟨10.1186/s12711-015-0112-x⟩. ⟨hal-01299594⟩
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