Trait overview

Merle is a coat pattern that has patches of both diluted color and solid color. It is an incompletely dominant coat color caused by a variety of alleles. Merle dilutes eumelanin (black pigment).

Gene name(s)

PMEL

Inheritance

Autosomal incomplete dominance

More common in the following breeds

, , Catahoula Leopard Dog, Dachshund, Hungarian Mudi, , American Bully, American Pit Bull Terrier, , , , , , Cockapoo, , Dunker, , Koolie, , , ,

Citations

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16407134/

https://vgl.ucdavis.edu/test/merle

https://doi.org/10.1111/age.13154