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Review
. 2024 Dec;35(4):556-564.
doi: 10.1007/s00335-024-10059-y. Epub 2024 Aug 14.

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA): a genetic resource for vertebrate animals

Imke Tammen  1 , Marius Mather  2 , Tosso Leeb  3 , Frank W Nicholas  4
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Review

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA): a genetic resource for vertebrate animals

Imke Tammen et al. Mamm Genome. 2024 Dec.

Abstract

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) is a freely available curated knowledgebase that contains information and facilitates research on inherited traits and diseases in animals. For the past 29 years, OMIA has been used by animal geneticists, breeders, and veterinarians worldwide as a definitive source of information. Recent increases in curation capacity and funding for software engineering support have resulted in software upgrades and commencement of several initiatives, which include the enhancement of variant information and links to human data resources, and the introduction of ontology-based breed information and categories. We provide an overview of current information and recent enhancements to OMIA and discuss how we are expanding the integration of OMIA into other resources and databases via the use of ontologies and the adaptation of tools used in human genetics.

Keywords: Likely causal variants; Mendelian inheritance; Ontology; Phene; Web database.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

Figures

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Fig. 1
Summary of OMIA phene category information for key species (accessed 21 June 2024). Corresponding Mammalian Phenotype Ontology (MP) and Mondo identifiers are included for each OMIA category. For an up-to-date list with hyperlinks to individual entries see the OMIA ‘Browse’ page: https://omia.org/browse/
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