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The genetic basis for a distinctive new coat coloring — known as “salmiak” — has been identified in domestic cats in Finland , have identified the genetic mutation responsible for a new, distinctive coat color pattern that arose recently in domestic cats in Finland . Originally known as “the Finnish mutation” when it was first spotted in 2007, this coat color is found in just a single feral cat population that is characterised by their black-and-white “tuxedo” coat coloring.
Salmiak cats tend to have the classic “tuxedo” pattern with an all-white neck, chest, belly and paws – although spots of color sometimes cover parts of the white markings, according to Heidi Anderson, a senior scientist at Wisdom Panel based in Helsinki, where she specializes in feline genetics and molecular diagnostics.
variants. To further investigate the source of this distinctive coloring, Dr Anderson and collaborators performed whole-genome sequencing on samples from two salmiak cats. Again, noF I G U R E 2 : Schematic presentation of the newly identified wsal allele of the KIT locus. A94991 bp deletion is present in the 65 875 bp 3′flanking region of the KIT gene . To confirm their findings, Dr Anderson and collaborators genotyped an additional 180 Finnish domestic cats along with three more salmiak cats.
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