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24 November 2012

Some research led me to this info:

White fur is the absence of any pigmentation. A solid white coat may be caused by any of three genetic mechanisms, which are completely different:

Albino white. This is recessive, and has been mentioned in the previous section.

Complete white spotting. The white spotting factor (S) is an incomplete dominant, which is affected by polygenetic modifiers and usually results in a cat that is only partially white. However, it can be so complete that it results in a completely white coat.

Dominant white. This mutation overrides all other genes for pigmentation, and produces a white coat and blue eyes. As its name implies, this is the effect of a dominant gene (W).

The dominant white can produce much deeper blue eye color than the albino.

Deafness in white cats is associated with the white spotting factor (S), and with the dominant white (W), but not with the albino white (c/c or ca/ca).


I'm deaf, so I'm probably Dominant White. Sounds like me, doesn't it. But the ability to pass as an albino might come in handy in my spy career, so it's all to the good.
posted by Trilby 24 November | 21:39
In my mind, I associate albino animals with pink eyes... but I'm not sure if all albino animals have pink eyes.

Regardless of how you came to be white, you can still stalk things in the snow.
posted by altolinguistic 25 November | 10:06
Albino cats don't all have red eyes. Some have blue eyes and look just like me.

Regardless of how you came to be white, you can still stalk things in the snow.


Yaaaaaay!!!!
posted by Trilby 25 November | 19:23
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