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"description": "Record the spatial scale, developmental stage and observation method of each pattern claim.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the claim explain pigment bands along hairs, body markings or the distribution of differently coloured patches?", "kind": "definition", "id": "pattern-unit-q01" }, { "text": "How were body region, age and visibility of markings controlled when phenotypes were compared?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "pattern-unit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "white-areas-and-mosaicism", "name": "White areas and mosaicism", "description": "Distinguishes candidate explanations for absent pigment and patchwise colour differences.", "findings": [ { "id": "patch-mechanism-and-masking", "name": "Patch mechanism and masking", "description": "Record whether a patch phenotype is explained by pigment-cell distribution, cellular mosaicism or another supported mechanism, including traits obscured by it.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence distinguishes the mechanism proposed for white areas from the mechanism proposed for differently pigmented patches?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "patch-mechanism-and-masking-q01" }, { "text": "Which underlying colour or pattern traits cannot be inferred reliably because visible white areas or other effects obscure them?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "patch-mechanism-and-masking-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "hair-length-texture-and-coverage", "name": "Hair length, texture and coverage", "description": "Inherited coat properties involving hair form and abundance rather than pigmentation alone.", "rationale": "Cat coat genetics includes the physical hair phenotype, whose similar appearances need not share one genetic cause.", "layers": [ { "id": "hair-phenotype-definition", "name": "Hair phenotype definition", "description": "Defines measurable hair traits independently of breed labels.", "findings": [ { "id": "hair-trait-observation", "name": "Hair trait observation", "description": "Record how length, curl, shaft form and 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"provenance", "id": "similar-coats-distinct-causes-q01" }, { "text": "When does reduced hair coverage require an acquired or clinical explanation outside this model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "similar-coats-distinct-causes-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "inheritance-and-conditional-prediction", "name": "Inheritance and conditional prediction", "description": "Rules and limitations for reasoning from variants and pedigrees to coat outcomes.", "rationale": "Useful predictions require explicit assumptions about inheritance, interactions and unresolved parental genotypes.", "layers": [ { "id": "alleles-and-transmission", "name": "Alleles and transmission", "description": "Represents locus-specific inheritance without conflating historical symbols and molecular variants.", "findings": [ { "id": "inheritance-model-identification", "name": "Inheritance model identification", "description": "Record allele identities, transmission assumptions and the evidence supporting their relationships.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which gene or locus, allele notation and molecular variants does the inheritance claim refer to?", "kind": "definition", "id": "inheritance-model-identification-q01" }, { "text": "What pedigree or molecular evidence supports its dominance relationships and any sex-linked transmission model?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "inheritance-model-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "interactions-and-prediction-limits", "name": "Interactions and prediction limits", "description": "Handles multilocus effects, variable expression and uncertainty in predicted offspring phenotypes.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditional-coat-outcomes", "name": "Conditional coat outcomes", "description": "Separate predicted genotype frequencies from visible phenotype probabilities and state all necessary assumptions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which interactions, masking effects, linkage assumptions or expression uncertainties alter the mapping from inherited genotype to visible coat?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "conditional-coat-outcomes-q01" }, { "text": "What parental evidence is sufficient to calculate an outcome distribution, and how should unresolved genotypes be represented?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditional-coat-outcomes-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-testing-and-field-conventions", "name": "Evidence, testing and field conventions", "description": "The research standards, test interpretation and naming conventions that make coat-genetics knowledge usable.", "rationale": "An agent must distinguish established mechanisms from provisional claims and know which terminology and test coverage support an application.", "layers": [ { "id": "research-and-test-evidence", "name": "Research and test evidence", "description": "Assesses support for genetic claims and the scope of laboratory results.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-strength-and-assay-coverage", "name": "Claim strength and assay coverage", "description": "Record evidence type, sampled populations, replication and the precise targets of a genetic assay.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the source establish segregation, statistical association, functional causation or independent replication, and in which cats?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "claim-strength-and-assay-coverage-q01" }, { "text": "Which variants does the assay detect, and what explanations remain possible after a negative result?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "claim-strength-and-assay-coverage-q02" }, { "text": "What additional observation or test would resolve a conflict between the reported genotype and the visible coat?", "kind": "action", "id": "claim-strength-and-assay-coverage-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "terminology-and-disciplinary-boundaries", "name": "Terminology and disciplinary boundaries", "description": "Places the subject within genetics and reconciles scientific, historical and breed-specific vocabularies.", "findings": [ { "id": "coat-knowledge-conventions", "name": "Coat knowledge conventions", "description": "Identify the authority behind a term or classification without presuming that cat coat genetics is an independently institutionalised discipline.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which scientific reference, nomenclature authority or breed registry defines each coat term, and where do their meanings differ?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "coat-knowledge-conventions-q01" }, { "text": "Which classification schemes, reviews or institutional resources explicitly locate this subject within animal genetics or pigmentation biology?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "coat-knowledge-conventions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This is a recall-based account; no sources were consulted.", "Verify current variant nomenclature, test coverage and breed-specific evidence before interpreting a genetic test.", "The categories listed are subject areas within coat genetics, not a formal disciplinary classification." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of cat coat genetics this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Pigment colour genetics", "Pigment dilution genetics", "Tabby and agouti pattern genetics", "White spotting and dominant white genetics", "Hair length genetics", "Hair texture and hairlessness genetics" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of cat coat genetics this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Gene symbols", "value_or_pattern": "ASIP, TYRP1, TYR, MLPH, KIT, FGF5", "note": "Examples of genes associated with coat traits; symbols identify genes, while a genetic test must specify the particular variant examined." }, { "scheme": "Classical coat-colour locus notation", "value_or_pattern": "A/a, B/b, D/d, O/o", "note": "Traditional notation for agouti, brown, dilution and sex-linked orange inheritance; notation and allele coverage vary among references." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of cat coat genetics this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Predicting possible offspring coat traits from parental genotypes", "Interpreting DNA tests for known coat-associated variants", "Explaining how masking and gene interactions affect visible colour and pattern", "Investigating mammalian pigmentation and hair development", "Informing breeding decisions where coat-associated variants also have health implications" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of cat coat genetics this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Inferring a complete genotype from appearance can fail because dominant traits, white coats and other masking effects conceal underlying variation.", "A negative test for selected variants does not exclude every genetic cause of a similar coat phenotype.", "Treating colour loci as independent can produce incorrect predictions when epistasis or sex-linked inheritance matters.", "White coat colour can be associated with congenital deafness, but coat appearance alone does not establish an individual cat's hearing status.", "Selecting narrowly for appearance can reduce genetic diversity or overlook associated welfare concerns." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of cat coat genetics this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Breed registries differ in accepted coat colours, pattern names and registration categories; these conventions do not change the underlying inheritance." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of cat coat genetics this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Feline genetics", "difference": "Covers inherited variation across the cat genome; cat coat genetics focuses on coat traits." }, { "name": "Cat coat colour classification", "difference": "Describes and names visible phenotypes; coat genetics explains their inherited causes." }, { "name": "Veterinary dermatology", "difference": "Addresses skin and hair health, including acquired disorders; coat genetics primarily addresses inherited variation." }, { "name": "Cat breeding", "difference": "Is the practice of selecting and mating cats; coat genetics supplies knowledge used in that practice." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of cat coat genetics this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which current primary studies establish causal variants for each major coat trait, and which commonly repeated explanations remain provisional?", "Which historical coat-locus symbols and breed colour terms map unambiguously to molecular determinants, and which require multiple interpretations?", "How transferable are published genotype-phenotype relationships across breeds, mixed-ancestry cats and populations absent from validation studies?", "Which coat traits still lack adequate explanations for variable expression, mosaic outcomes or interactions among loci?", "Which authoritative reviews and classification resources define the field's boundaries, and how should reported coat-associated health relationships link to neighbouring veterinary models?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 17, "questions": 28 } }