Lazuli

Topaz · DBE-CEL · one blue eye · Genotyped

Under the variant field this directory proposes, this cat would read DBE 162t. A laboratory result on this animal. 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

A laboratory has tested this animal itself, so nothing has to be traced: the result is on the cat.

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What is flagged on this tree

1. ROXI. BREEDING RECOMMENDATIONS THE PAGE ATTRIBUTES TO PROFESSOR MARIE ABITBOL OF THE VETAGRO RESEARCH LABORATORY. THE RESEARCHER AND THE SUBJECT ARE REAL AND THIS REGISTER ALREADY HOLDS HER WORK: Abitbol and others 2024, 'Different Founding Effects Underlie Dominant Blue Eyes in the Domestic Cat', Animals 14(13):1845; Abitbol and others 2024, 'A PAX3 insertion in the Celestial breed and certain feline breeding lines with dominant blue eyes', Animal Genetics 55; Abitbol and others 2024, 'PAX3 haploinsufficiency in Maine Coon cats with dominant blue eyes and hearing loss resembling the human Waardenburg syndrome', G3; and Abitbol and others 2025, 'Dominant blue eyes in Maine Coon cats: new PAX3 variant and updated phenotypic data', Animal Genetics. BUT THE LIST OF RECOMMENDATIONS BELOW IS THE BREEDER'S RENDERING OF THEM AND THIS REGISTER HAS NOT CHECKED IT AGAINST THOSE PAPERS. A real researcher being correctly named does not make a lay summary of her advice accurate. RECORDED AS THE BREEDER STATES IT, ATTRIBUTED AS THE BREEDER ATTRIBUTES IT, AND NOT ADOPTED. WHERE THIS REGISTER NEEDS THE SCIENCE IT CITES THE PAPERS DIRECTLY. THE LIST: do not breed DBE bloodlines with colourpoint or colourpoint carriers; with cats that have white, meaning bicolour, harlequin or van; with pure white cats; with cats born from DBE marriages that are born LATENT with orange eyes; or with recessive odd eyed. AND: 'Mixing, accidentally or not, a dominant cat to another dominant cat EVEN IF LATENT, can cause severe health issues in the first or future generations and should never be done' | THE DANGERS NAMED: 'Deafness (Altai, Topaz), CRANIAL MALFORMATIONS (Ojos Azules, a breed abandoned by the LOOF and TICA in 2004 because of issues). Other things commonly seen in dominant odd eyed is a KINKED TAIL or NOSE SHAPES THAT ARE STRANGE, of form and small or not equal nostrils.' And: 'DOMINANT TO DOMINANT ALSO SEEMS TO PRODUCE KITTENS WITH A LARGE AMOUNT OF WHITE EVEN IF THE PARENTS ARE SOLID' | THAT LAST OBSERVATION BEARS DIRECTLY ON MIYUKI OF AERLIN. He is out of Kaena and Lazuli, both of dominant lines, HIS BREEDER CALLS HIM HOMOZYGOUS, and he is SOLID WHITE AND DEAF where both parents carry only a chin patch. THE PAGE PREDICTS EXACTLY THAT OUTCOME FROM EXACTLY THAT MATING, and it predicts it as a harm | THE REGISTER RECORDS THIS AS A BREEDER'S STATEMENT OF PRACTICE AND AS A HEALTH CLAIM ATTRIBUTED TO A NAMED RESEARCHER. It does not endorse it, it has not verified the attribution, and it makes no recommendation about breeding
2. ROXI. Line and variant. The line Blue Eyed Maine Coons (Markiss) holds more than one variant across its records (DBE-ALT, DBE-CEL).
3. THE UNNAMED FEMALE DRAWN AS '??'. Unnamed, AND EXPECTED TO STAY THAT WAY. The charts draw her as '??' and give her nothing else: no name, no breed, no colour, no code and no eye. She is the dam of the one DNA-genotyped DBE-CEL animal in this register and every position above her is empty. THE HOLDER OF THIS MATERIAL STATED ON 19 AUGUST 2026 THAT ONE PARENT OF LAZULI WILL ALWAYS BE UNKNOWN. She is therefore not a gap awaiting a document and is not carried on any list of pedigrees to obtain. SHE IS THE ANIMAL WHOSE ABSENCE FROM THE RECORD THIS SURVEY IS ABOUT, and the absence is now a settled fact about the record rather than an outstanding question
4. LAZULI. BREEDING RECOMMENDATIONS THE PAGE ATTRIBUTES TO PROFESSOR MARIE ABITBOL OF THE VETAGRO RESEARCH LABORATORY. THE RESEARCHER AND THE SUBJECT ARE REAL AND THIS REGISTER ALREADY HOLDS HER WORK: Abitbol and others 2024, 'Different Founding Effects Underlie Dominant Blue Eyes in the Domestic Cat', Animals 14(13):1845; Abitbol and others 2024, 'A PAX3 insertion in the Celestial breed and certain feline breeding lines with dominant blue eyes', Animal Genetics 55; Abitbol and others 2024, 'PAX3 haploinsufficiency in Maine Coon cats with dominant blue eyes and hearing loss resembling the human Waardenburg syndrome', G3; and Abitbol and others 2025, 'Dominant blue eyes in Maine Coon cats: new PAX3 variant and updated phenotypic data', Animal Genetics. BUT THE LIST OF RECOMMENDATIONS BELOW IS THE BREEDER'S RENDERING OF THEM AND THIS REGISTER HAS NOT CHECKED IT AGAINST THOSE PAPERS. A real researcher being correctly named does not make a lay summary of her advice accurate. RECORDED AS THE BREEDER STATES IT, ATTRIBUTED AS THE BREEDER ATTRIBUTES IT, AND NOT ADOPTED. WHERE THIS REGISTER NEEDS THE SCIENCE IT CITES THE PAPERS DIRECTLY. THE LIST: do not breed DBE bloodlines with colourpoint or colourpoint carriers; with cats that have white, meaning bicolour, harlequin or van; with pure white cats; with cats born from DBE marriages that are born LATENT with orange eyes; or with recessive odd eyed. AND: 'Mixing, accidentally or not, a dominant cat to another dominant cat EVEN IF LATENT, can cause severe health issues in the first or future generations and should never be done' | THE DANGERS NAMED: 'Deafness (Altai, Topaz), CRANIAL MALFORMATIONS (Ojos Azules, a breed abandoned by the LOOF and TICA in 2004 because of issues). Other things commonly seen in dominant odd eyed is a KINKED TAIL or NOSE SHAPES THAT ARE STRANGE, of form and small or not equal nostrils.' And: 'DOMINANT TO DOMINANT ALSO SEEMS TO PRODUCE KITTENS WITH A LARGE AMOUNT OF WHITE EVEN IF THE PARENTS ARE SOLID' | THAT LAST OBSERVATION BEARS DIRECTLY ON MIYUKI OF AERLIN. He is out of Kaena and Lazuli, both of dominant lines, HIS BREEDER CALLS HIM HOMOZYGOUS, and he is SOLID WHITE AND DEAF where both parents carry only a chin patch. THE PAGE PREDICTS EXACTLY THAT OUTCOME FROM EXACTLY THAT MATING, and it predicts it as a harm | THE REGISTER RECORDS THIS AS A BREEDER'S STATEMENT OF PRACTICE AND AS A HEALTH CLAIM ATTRIBUTED TO A NAMED RESEARCHER. It does not endorse it, it has not verified the attribution, and it makes no recommendation about breeding

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The record

Register id

cel-01

Sex

male

Breed, as stated

Topaz

Variant

DBE-CEL

Eye status

odd: one blue eye

Eyes, in the source's words

odd, one green and one blue, photographed

Certificate wording

the breeder's own words: he's the founder of the Celeste breed; he's stayed with us in his retirement

Role

founder

Relations named by the source

out of the unnamed female drawn as '??' by Roxi; MATED TO KAENA, a daughter of Nikita'l Seymour, 18 July 2016, litter of seven, WHICH IS THE SECOND RECORDED CROSSING OF THE ALT AND CEL LINES; sire of Maidee out of Ilvy Freyja; sire of Mirage of Aerlin and Muscari of Aerlin out of Igritte

Country

France

Year

b. 2.4.2015

Photograph credit

Chatterie d'Aerlin, own page

The description held

BROWN TABBY WITH ONE GREEN EYE AND ONE BLUE, photographed by his own cattery. THE ONLY WHITE ON HIM IS A SMALL CHIN AND CHEST PATCH AND THERE IS NO WHITE ANYWHERE ON THE HEAD: the blue eye is surrounded by tabby marking. He is not dominant white and not colourpointed. NOTHING IN HIS COAT CAN ACCOUNT FOR THE BLUE EYE. THIS REGISTER HELD HIM AS BLUE-EYED AND HE IS ODD-EYED

Evidence grade

DNA genotyped a laboratory result exists for this animal

In the register

• Parents: Roxi, the unnamed female drawn as '??'
• Offspring recorded in this register; a cat may have others: Ma dee, also written Maidee, Maidi, printed on the chart as Maidi with a diaeresis, Malice, Matahina, Matcha, Mauve, Mavi, Mavi of Aerlin, Maya, Merlin, Mermite, Mirage of Aerlin, Mistral, Miyuki of Aerlin, given on the Celeste charts as Miyuki, Mochi, Mogwai, Monky, Muscari of Aerlin

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.