Blue Eyes Directory · blueeyesdirectory.com Record mar-16, printed 14 September 2026. Every animal on this sheet has its own page and its own source at that address.
Girl 1, mating 4, first of two so labelled
Exotic Shorthair cross · line: Marusya · both eyes blue, put down to a DBE variant or its line · Variant known, this cat untested
Under the variant field this directory proposes, this cat would read DBE 161p. A carrier of a variant with no published allele, on no named line. This is the group bare 161 exists for. The proposal is set out in full here, and no registry issues this field today: it is computed from the record at each build and is not part of any registration.
How this cat is connected to the trait
No recorded parent link joins this cat to a founder or to a tested animal. What the record rests on instead is the line recorded on it, Marusya, which is a source's attribution and not a descent this register can walk; and no recorded parent at all, which is a gap in the sources and not a statement that the cat had none.
No parent is recorded for this cat in the register, so no genealogy can be drawn. That is a gap in the sources, not a statement that the cat had none. Any offspring the register holds are listed below.
The record
Register id
mar-16
Sex
female
Position label
Girl 1, mating 4, first of two so labelled
Breed, as stated
Exotic Shorthair cross
Line
Marusya
Eye status
blue-variant: both eyes blue, put down to a DBE variant or its line
Eyes, in the source's words
both blue
Role
offspring
Relations named by the source
F2, Vasiliy x Sunlight
Litter key
cyrridwen-m4
Country
Russia
The description held
brown patched tabby and white the variant of this line is DBE-Maru and two copies of it are not survivable on the evidence held. The allele is PAX3 XM_019838731.3:c.784C>T, a nonsense variant in the fifth exon that truncates the protein at p.(Arg262*) and removes 46 per cent of it. All 14 dominant blue eyed cats of the line tested are heterozygous. One homozygote is on record and it was an abnormal kitten, Dead at birth, out of two dominant blue eyed parents, genotyped T/T. It is recorded against every animal of the line because a breeder looks up an animal and not a line. What it means in practice: mating two carriers together is expected to lose the quarter of the litter that inherits two copies, and because those kittens do not survive to be counted, a breeder doing it may see only small litters and conclude nothing is wrong. It is a different and worse harm from the compound heterozygote this register documents elsewhere, which is white and deaf and which lives. No hearing data exists for any cat of this line, which the authors state explicitly, so nothing is said here about deafness in it either way. Source: Abitbol M, Eisele T and Lipovenko E, 'Additional PAX3 Variants for Dominant Blue Eyes in Cats', Animal Genetics 2026;57:e70199. S_PAX3_2026_236
Evidence grade
Line-traced descent from a named founder is stated by the source
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Source
the Cyrridwen chart; unnamed, and two kittens of this litter carry the same label; and Abitbol M, 'CORIN and DBE variants in cats: what we know and what remains to be explored', World Cat Federation, 2026. A presentation and not a published paper
This directory is a working aid compiled from published charts, registry documents and breeder statements. It is not a register and it has no standing of any kind. The grade attaches to the animal, not to the line: a cat whose ancestor was genotyped is line-traced, not genotyped.