Cream sunshine

Appearance

Cream and sunshine dilute the coat, mane and tail to a cream color similar to homozygous cream. They have pink skin and blue eyes.		Adults

Cream and sunshine dilute the coat, mane

and tail to a cream color similar to

homozygous cream. They have pink skin

and blue eyes.

Adults

Mimics

Cream sunshine looks similar to homozygous cream (cremello, smoky cream, perlino). Genetic testing is necessary to confirm the coat color.

Genetics

Cream sunshine is the result of one copy of cream and one copy of sunshine. The cream (CR) and sunshine (sun) dilutions are both alleles of the MATP gene and interact with each other.

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Cream sunshine:
CR/sun

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Articles

Holl H.M., Pflug K.M., Yates K.M., Hoefs-Martin K., Shepard C., Cook D.G., Lafayette C., Brooks S.A.; A candidate gene approach identifies variants in SLC45A2 that explain dilute phenotypes, pearl and sunshine, in compound heterozygote horses; Animal Genetics (2019); Doi: 10.1111/age.12790