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Black silver horse exhibiting strongly diluted long hair with darker roots and flat gray, dappled body color. The silver or silver dapple (Z) gene is a dilution gene that affects the black base coat color and is associated with Multiple Congenital Ocular Abnormalities.
The gene for LWS is most common in the American Paint Horse, but occurs in any breed that may carry frame genetics, including American Quarter Horses, Appaloosas, Thoroughbreds, Morgan horses, miniature horses, Tennessee Walking Horses, and mustangs, as well as horses that are descended from these breeds.
A white horse with dark spots that flow out over the entire body. [11] Few Spot Leopard: A mostly white horse with a bit of color remaining around the flank, neck and head. [11] Snowflake: A horse with white spots, flecks, on a dark body. Typically the white spots increase in number and size as the horse ages. [11] Appaloosa Roan, Varnish roan ...
nd1/nd1: Horse is very slightly diluted and primitive markings are darker. nd1/nd2: Horse is not diluted and has faint primitive markings. nd2/nd2: Horse has undiluted coat color with no primitive markings. SLC36A1 Ch n: Champagne: A dominant dilution gene that creates freckled skin, amber or green-ish eyes, and gives a bronze cast to hair. The ...
This Thoroughbred stallion (W2/+) has one form of dominant white.His skin, hooves, and coat lack pigment cells, giving him a pink-skinned white coat. Dominant white (W) [1] [2] is a group of genetically related coat color alleles on the KIT gene of the horse, best known for producing an all-white coat, but also able to produce various forms of white spotting, as well as bold white markings.
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Unless also affected by other, unrelated genes, they maintain dark skin and brown eyes, though some heterozygous dilutes may be born with pink skin that darkens with age. Some have slightly lighter, amber eyes. However, the heterozygous cream dilute (CR) must not be confused with a horse carrying champagne dilution.
Equine coat color genetics discusses color genes in horses, including a brief description of dilution genes Equine coat color describes various colors in horses Cream gene , describes the process for horses by which the cremello, perlino, smoky cream double-dilute colors are created as well as the buckskin , palomino and smoky black single ...