Coat Colour / Coat Structure Dog

Diagnostic spectrum

• A-locus (alleles: Ay, Aw, at, a)
• B-locus (brown, chocolate, liver(nose))
• B-locus (rare variants b4, be, bh)
• C-locus (albino)
• C-locus (OCA4)
• Cocoa
• Curly (curled hair: C1, C2)
• D-locus (rare variants d2, d3)
• D-locus d1 (dilution)
• E-locus (rare variants e2)
• E-locus (special colours EG, EH, eA)
• E-locus e1 (yellow, lemon, red, cream, apricot)
• EM-locus (melanistic mask)
• Furnishing (wire hair)
• H-locus (harlequin)
• Shedding
• Coat length I (long or short hair)
• Coat length II (long or short hair)
• Hairlessness (powderpuff)
• I-locus (pheomelanin intensitity)
• Improper coat
• K-locus (only the allele KB)
• M-locus* (alleles: Mh, M, Ma+, Ma, Mc+, Mc, m, and mosaics)
• Panda white spotting
• S-locus (piebald, white spotting)
• Saddle-tan
• Ticking