Two new studies found that a small, missing piece of DNA located next to a specific protein resulted in orange fur coloration in cats.

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Your orange cat may host a never-before-seen genetic pathway for color pigmentation, according to new studies Cats are arguably perfect. At least, evidence suggests that felines, which have evolved ...

But 48 were also found in non-orange cats, which left three likely candidates for the elusive mutation. One was a small, 5,076-base pair deletion that removed about 0.005% of the X chromosome in a ...

In cats only, a small deletion of information on the X chromosome activates Arhgap36 in pigment cells where it is normally not active, triggering orange fur. Males have XY sex chromosomes and ...

“We used genetic approaches to pinpoint a mutation, a small deletion of sequence on the X chromosome, that causes orange color. All orange cats have this deletion, but non-orange cats do not ...