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Pastimes : Cat Chat

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To: Siber who wrote (1009)3/19/2013 9:31:27 PM
From: TimF   of 2933
 
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The odd-eyed coloring is caused when either the epistatic (dominant) white gene (which masks any other color genes and turns a cat completely white) [4] or the white spotting gene (which is the gene responsible for bicolor and tuxedo cats) [5] prevents melanin ( pigment) granules from reaching one eye during development, [3] resulting in a cat with one blue eye and one green, yellow, or brown eye. The condition only rarely occurs in cats that lack both the dominant white and the white spotting gene. [4]

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