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Record bgm-98, printed 30 August 2026. Every animal on this sheet has its own page and its own source at that address.

British Gems Sophie

prefix British Gems · British Shorthair · one blue eye · No variant and no line attributed

Under the variant field this directory proposes, this cat would read DBE 161p. A carrier of a variant nobody has sequenced, 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 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

BRITISH GEMS SOPHIE. THE CATTERY HAS A WORD FOR THE SECTORAL EYE AND USES IT AS A CATEGORY OF THE DOMINANT GENE. The page lists the dominant phenotype as 'two intense blue eyes, odd, OR POLYCHROMIC, or latent'. It also describes them separately: 'Another possibility in the eye colors are SPLIT, OR CRACKED EYES. These eyes have both orange as blue in them. On show they are not appreciated as much as odd eyed.' THAT IS THE PHENOTYPE OF THE CREAM HARLEQUIN BOY, and the cattery treats it as belonging to the dominant material rather than to the white | ONE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS IS CAPTIONED 'BRITISH GEMS SOPHIE: SPLIT ODD EYED AT BOTH SIDES', so a second cat of this prefix carries it, ON BOTH EYES. Two more are captioned 'British shorthair with both eyes cracked, the blue and orange flow into each other' and 'Blue eye cracked with a part of orange' | THIS REGISTER'S COAT TIERS CANNOT SEE ANY OF IT. A sectoral iris is a feature of the eye and not of the coat, and the cream harlequin boy would be filed under HIGH WHITE and not counted

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: bgm-98
Sex: female
Cattery prefix: British Gems
Breed, as stated: British Shorthair
Eye status: odd: one blue eye
Eyes, in the source's words: SPLIT ODD EYED AT BOTH SIDES, in the cattery's own caption: both irises divided between blue and orange
Certificate wording: the cattery's own caption: British gems Sophie, split odd eyed at both sides
Role: other
Country: Belgium
Photograph credit: British Gems cattery, own genetics article
The description held: BOTH IRISES DIVIDED BETWEEN BLUE AND ORANGE. She is the second sectoral cat of this prefix, after the cream harlequin male photographed 27 June 2022, AND SHE CARRIES IT ON BOTH EYES WHERE HE CARRIES IT ON ONE. Her cattery's own article lists POLYCHROMIC among the phenotypes of the dominant gene, so it treats this as belonging to the dominant material and not to the white. NO EMS CODE, NO DATE OF BIRTH AND NO PARENTAGE IS GIVEN FOR HER
Evidence grade: Reported asserted, with neither a test nor a traced descent

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Source

the British Gems cattery's own published article 'Genetics of odd eyed', british-gems.com/geneticsofoddeyed, read 25 August 2026. A BREEDER'S PERSPECTIVE AND NOT A SOURCE OF AUTHORITY. It opens 'I also want to mention that I AM NOT A GENETICIST. I wrote this article after research and from personal experience', and this register grades it accordingly: it is evidence of WHAT ONE BREEDER BELIEVES AND PRACTISES, and of the vocabulary in use among the catteries this register tracks, AND IT IS NOT EVIDENCE OF THE GENETICS. Where it restates published work, the published work is held in this register's own bibliography and is cited from there. It sets out RECESSIVE and DOMINANT odd eye as two separate things, names ALTAI, OJOS AZULES AND TOPAZ as the sources of the dominant, cites PROFESSOR MARIE ABITBOL of the Vetagro research laboratory for a list of breeding recommendations, and carries photographs including one captioned 'British gems Sophie: split odd eyed at both sides'

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.