Xin-He Winnie

prefix Xin-He · Chinese domestic cat · DBE-xHW · the source records no eye colour · Genotyped

Genealogy trace, one printable page carrying the proposed code

Under the variant field this directory proposes, this cat would read DBE 167p. The variant is attributed to this animal from the record rather than from a result on it. 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 a variant recorded on the animal itself, DBE-xHW; 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.

What is flagged

1. Xin-he Winnie. The two Chinese variants are identified, and a test on sale is the evidence for it. The holder of this register states, 13 September 2026, that a laboratory in China sells a test for DBE-cDc and for DBE-xHW. A commercial assay cannot be built without the sequence: to sell one, a laboratory must know where the variant is, what it is, and how to amplify across it, and must return a genotype on a customer's animal. These two are therefore identified in the ordinary sense, and this register had been treating the absence of a paper as if it were an absence of identification. What is absent is an academic publication, and the reason is the laboratory's business rather than the strength of its evidence: it is a commercial laboratory and does not publish academically. That is not the same situation as a variant nobody has sequenced and is no longer filed with it. What does not change: no sequence, coordinate, exon or notation is held for either, so neither can be placed on this register's PAX3 figure, neither can be checked against a paper, and no cat here is graded genotyped for either. S_CHINESE_273 | the two Chinese variants have full names and numbers, and this register held neither. DBE-cdc is Chinese domestic cat and DBE-XHW is xinhe Winnie. A commercial testing company's article, read 13 September 2026, also numbers the variants and calls these two VARIANT 5 and variant 6, both 'unpublished, proposed'. A breeder may be shown that numbering on a result sheet, which is why it is recorded here. It is a second independent commercial source describing them as this register does, identified but not published, and two such sources agreeing is not a paper but is better than one. The source names PAX3 for the four it calls published and names no gene for these two, so nothing yet places either at PAX3 and this register does not place them there. And the numbering is incomplete: its list omits DBE-NAD and DBE-MARU, both published in 2026, so a reader shown 'Variant 5 of 6' is counting against a scale that is missing two. S_CHINESE2_275 | correction, and the laboratory's own catalogue is what corrects it. This register held, from the holder's relayed word of 13 September 2026, that the Chinese laboratory sold a test for both DBE-cDc and DBE-xHW. It does not. Its published catalogue, read the same day, RUNS T31 TO T35 and stops at DBE5. There is no DBE6 product. So DBE-xHW is identified by a laboratory that does not sell a test for it, which leaves it resting on that laboratory's statement alone and makes it the weakest-evidenced of the eight variants this register holds. The earlier entry is corrected and not removed, because what this register believed and on what basis is part of the record. The finder now speaks directly. In a public statement of October 2025 the laboratory gives this cat's variant as DBE6, confirmed SEPTEMBER 2025 in Chinese domestic cats, dominant in inheritance, and calls it the second dominant blue eye variant found in native Chinese cat populations. The identification date is therefore september 2025 and not merely '2025'. It still names no gene, so nothing places this variant at PAX3 and this register does not place it there. S_PETGENO_276 | the register's position on this variant moves, and this is what moved it. Until 13 September 2026 this register held both Chinese variants OUTSIDE the PAX3 claim, on every page and every figure, for one stated reason: No public source named a gene for either. The identifying laboratory's own material now names PAX3 for this one in terms that leave no room, 'the 6th identified PAX3 mutation', and identifies the population as black domestic cats. The variant is therefore placed at PAX3 HERE. What has not changed: there is still no publication, no position in the gene and no sequence in any public source, and no test is sold for it even by the laboratory that found it. And an inference that is recorded as an inference. The same material calls this the SIXTH PAX3 mutation, and the laboratory's own numbering runs DBE1 CEL, DBE2 RE, DBE3 ALT, DBE4 AGO, DBE5 cDc, DBE6 xHW. If the sixth is PAX3 then the five below it are, and the fifth is DBE-cDc. That is a reading of a count and not a statement about DBE-cDc, so the gene is still not recorded as established for DBE-cDc. Note also what the count leaves out: it stops at six, and DBE-NAD and DBE-MARU, both published in 2026 and both PAX3, are not in it. The laboratory's numbering is its own and is not the field's. A named heterozygote of this line is now held: an individual written out as N/DBE6, call name Taiji. Two photographs of the line are held and neither is published, because they are crops from a composite slide and the slide does not say which cat is the named one; One of the two is odd-eyed, one blue and one amber, and the other is blue-eyed, so this variant joins the others in presenting both ways. S_PETGENO_277

A flag is not an error. It marks a place where two sources say different things, or where an attribution cannot be made on the evidence held.

The record

Register id

nom-03

Sex

not stated by the source

Cattery prefix

Xin-He

Breed, as stated

Chinese domestic cat

Variant

DBE-xHW

Eye status

unknown: the source records no eye colour

Role

founder

Country

China

The description held

unpublished; and the only one of the eight variants with no code on any commercial panel | the gene is named at last and it is PAX3. The identifying laboratory's own material, read 13 September 2026, calls this variant the sixth identified PAX3 MUTATION and states it was found in black domestic cats. The register now places DBE-xHW AT PAX3. It does so on a stated attribution and not on a paper, and the grade stays reported for that reason. No position is given: no exon, no intron, no length, no class, no coordinate. So this variant can be named on the gene and still cannot be drawn on it, and the locus figure continues to leave it off rather than place it by guess

Evidence grade

Reported asserted, with neither a test nor a traced descent

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.