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# Few Spot
- URL: https://equinecolors.com/few-spot/
- Published: 2026-07-02T10:46:25.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-13T08:06:33.000Z
- Description: Few spot is a spotted coat pattern that causes a nearly white coat filled with a few scattered spots, as well as mottled skin, striped hooves and white sclera.
- Author: Hannelore Roodhooft
- Tags: Colors, Patterns & Markings, #Import 2026-08-12 09:42

## Appearance

| Foals | ![Few spot foal](https://equinecolors.com/content/images/2026/07/fewspotfoal.png) | Foals are usually born with their few spotpattern. Their spots may become moreapparent with age, while other remainingcolor can fade. Foals can already show**mottled skin**, **striped hooves** and   **white**sclera. |
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| Few spot horses have a (nearly) fully **white**coat filled with only a **small number**or no **spots**. They may retain some coloron the flanks, neck, and head, which mayfade as they age. Horses have **mottled skin**,striped hooves and **white sclera**. | ![Few spot horse](https://equinecolors.com/content/images/2026/07/fewspot.png) | Adults |
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## Genetics

Few spot is the result of two copies of the LP allele, with two copies of PATN1 or other modifying alleles. LP is a dominant allele of the LP gene.

> Some horses only test positive for LP but have no copies, or only one copy, of PATN1; yet they still have a few spot pattern. This suggests that there are likely many other, as-yet unidentified, alleles that influence how spotted patterns are expressed!.

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****Few spot:**  
LP/LP  
LP/LP + PATN1/patn1  
LP/LP + PATN1/PATN1

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## Articles

1. Bellone RR, Holl H, Setaluri V, Devi S, Maddodi N, Archer S, Sandmeyer L, Ludwig A, Foerster D, Pruvost M, Reissmann M, Bortfeldt R, Adelson DL, Lim SL, Nelson J, Haase B, Engensteiner M, Leeb T, Forsyth G, Mienaltowski MJ, Mahadevan P, Hofreiter M, Paijmans JL, Gonzalez-Fortes G, Grahn B, Brooks SA; ***Evidence for a retroviral insertion in TRPM1 as the cause of congenital stationary night blindness and leopard complex spotting in the horse***; PLoS One (2013); Doi: [10.1371/journal.pone.0078280](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0078280?ref=equinecolors.com)
2. McFadden A, Vierra M, Martin K, Brooks SA, Everts RE, Lafayette C; ***Spotting the Pattern: A Review on White Coat Color in the Domestic Horse*** ; Animals (2024); Doi: [10.3390/ani14030451](https://doi.org/10.3390/ani14030451?ref=equinecolors.com)
3. Terry RB, Archer S, Brooks S, Bernoco D, Bailey E; ***Assignment of the appaloosa coat colour gene (LP) to equine chromosome 1***; Animal Genetics (2004); Doi: [10.1111/j.1365-2052.2004.01113.x](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2052.2004.01113.x?ref=equinecolors.com)

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