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Whippet — Retinal atrophy, progressive, Whippet (hereditary; OMIA-verified breed predisposition)

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Whippet — Retinal atrophy, progressive, Whippet (hereditary; OMIA-verified breed predisposition)

Source: first-hand OMIA (University of Sydney) breed-specific hereditary-disorder record, saved verbatim to source_file; every claim below is a C1 byte-substring of it.

Claims

  • Breed: Whippet (Dog)
  • Disorder:
  • Mode of inheritance: Autosomal recessive
  • Clin feat: As reported by Somma et al. (2017), The retinal dystrophy reported here in Whippet dogs has a unique phenotype of an initial lack of ERG b-wave, development of retinal bullae then a progressive generalized retinal degeneration.
  • Defect: yes

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: PRA-<em>CaBP4& </em>(Moffat et al., 2024) (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.

  • 2017. Characterization of a novel form of progressive retinal atrophy in Whippet dogs: a clinical, electroretinographic, and breeding study. Vet Ophthalmol — PubMed:PMID27896899 | DOI:10.1111/vop.12448 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
  • 2021. The Blue Book: Ocular disorders presumed to be inherited in purebred dogs. 13th Edition. https://ofa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/ACVO-Blue-Book-2021.pdf — OMIA Phene_Article / Article
  • 2024. Consensus guidelines for nomenclature of companion animal inherited retinal disorders. Vet Ophthalmol — PubMed:PMID38334230 | DOI:10.1111/vop.13185 — OMIA Phene_Article / Article

verification_derived: method: derived_from_dataset source: "OMIA database dump (omia.xml, local); fields Gene/Variant/Article/OMIM" note: "Structured fields (gene, variant rsID/protein change, PubMed/DOI references, OMIM cross-link) extracted from OMIA dump and presented with first-hand values; not verbatim prose."

Sources

Whippet — Retinal atrophy, progressive, Whippet (hereditary; OMIA-verified breed predisposition)
Source document: OMIA — Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (University of Sydney)
OMIA — Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (University of Sydney)OMIA breed-specific hereditary-disorder records (omia.org), derived from local OMIA database dump; dataset: https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70retrieved 2026-08-02

Verification file: pdf-raw/breed-health/whippet_omia3990_3990.txt