In other species: domestic cat

Categories: Pigmentation phene

Single-gene trait/disorder: yes

Mode of inheritance: X-linked

Disease-related: no

Key variant known: no

Species-specific name: Sex-linked yellow

Species-specific symbol: Sly

Mapping: Alizadeh et al. (2009) reported that the phenotypically similar phenes Orange in cats and Sex-linked yellow in golden hamsters map to "nonhomologous regions of the X chromosome", In other words, it is likely that these highly similar phenes are encoded by different genes.