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Table 1 Inherited limb deficiencies in various species

From: A 50-kb deletion disrupting the RSPO2 gene is associated with tetradysmelia in Holstein Friesian cattle

Disorder

Species

Mode of inheritance

Phenotype

Gene

References

Amputated

Cattle

AR

Absence of limbs distal from elbow and hock joints

NK

https://omia.org/OMIA000036/9913/; [36, 39, 40]

Acroteriasis congenita

Cattle

AR

Absence of the distal parts of the limbs, head deformities

NK

https://omia.org/OMIA000010/9913/; [37, 40]

Ectromelia

Cattle

NK

Congenital absence of distal parts of the limbs, cleft lip/palate, mandibular hypoplasia, scoliosis

NK

https://omia.org/OMIA001126/9913/; [38, 40]

Dog

NK

Front legs very small or absent

NK

https://omia.org/OMIA001126/9615/; [7]

Hemimelia

Dog

NK

Congenital absence of all or part of the distal part of a limb

NK

https://omia.org/OMIA000450/9615/; [6]

Goat

NK

Congenital absence of all or part of the distal part of a limb

NK

https://omia.org/OMIA000450/9925/; [3]

Sheep

NK

Congenital absence of all or part of the distal part of a limb

NK

https://omia.org/OMIA000450/9940/; [9, 63]

Limbless

Chicken

AR

Absence of limbs, shortened upper beak

NK

https://omia.org/OMIA000602/9031/; [13]

Peromelia

Cattle

NK

Absence of the distal parts of the limbs

NK

https://omia.org/OMIA000786/9913/; [2]

Goat

AR

Absence of the distal parts of the limbs

NK

https://omia.org/OMIA000786/9925/; [5]

Footless

Mouse

AR

Abnormal limb morphology, abnormal kidney development, cleft palate, absence of all nails

Rspo2ftls

https://informatics.jax.org/allele/key/29601; [10]

Fgf-10-deficiency

Mouse

AR

Complete absence of limbs, abnormal lung development

Fgf10tm1Wss

https://informatics.jax.org/allele/key/3008;

Renal dysplasia-limb defects syndrome

Human

AR

Growth retardation, complete phocomelia of upper limbs, renal dysplasia, abnormal genitalia

NK

https://omim.org/entry/266910; [48]

Posterior amelia

Human

AR

Absence of hindlimbs, hypoplastic or absent pelvic bones, hypoplasia of the sacrum, lung hypoplasia

TBX4

https://omim.org/entry/601360; [50]

Tetraamelia syndrome 1

Human

AR

Limb agenesis, cleft lip/palate, diaphragmatic defect, lung, renal and adrenal agenesis, pelvic hypoplasia, urogenital defects

WNT3

https://omim.org/entry/273395; [20, 47]

Tetraamelia syndrome

Human

AR

Rudimentary appendages or complete absence of the limbs, bilateral agenesis of the lungs, cleft lip/palate, ankyloglossia, mandibular hypoplasia, microretrognathia, labioscrotal fold aplasia

RSPO2

https://omim.org/entry/618021; [22, 49]

Al-Awadi/Raas-Rothschild syndrome

Human

AR

Severe malformations of upper and lower limbs with severely hypoplastic pelvis and abnormal genitalia

WNT7A

https://omim.org/entry/276820; [21]

  1. Disorders have been selected from the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals catalogue (OMIA), Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) records and Mouse Genome Informatics database, respectively; AR autosomal recessive, NK not known