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Record cel-39, printed 30 August 2026. Every animal on this sheet has its own page and its own source at that address.

Maya

Celeste line · no blue eye. Carrier status not known · No variant and no line attributed · also in its ancestry: DBE-CEL

How this cat is connected to the trait

  1. Maya
  2. Lazuli, the sire of Maya. genotyped DBE-CEL; a founder of this survey

That is one recorded parent link, and the animal at the end of it has a laboratory result, so what this cat could carry is not a guess about a line but a consequence of a test on a relative. Every step is a parent recorded in this register from a document; none of them is an assumption. The full genealogy is drawn below, and the sources for each animal are on its own page.

Two generations aboveOne generation aboveRoxi. XXH n 24 68. Lineage genotyped. FLAGGED: 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…GRANDSIRERoxiXXH n 24 68DBE-CEL founder1-2the unnamed female drawn as '??'. THE CHART LEAVES HER UNNAMED. Reported. FLAGGED: 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…GRANDDAMthe unnamed female…THE CHART LEAVES HER UNN…3Lazuli. BROWN TABBY WITH ONE GREEN EYE AND ONE BLUE, photographed by his own cattery. DNA genotyped. FLAGGED: 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:…SIRELazuliBROWN TABBY WITH ONE GRE…DBE-CEL founder4Igritte. cinnamon tortie. Reported. FLAGGED: Segregation. A LITTER OF SIX, TWO SHOWING AND FOUR NOT, WHICH IS WHAT ONE DOMINANT ALLELE IN ONE PARENT PREDICTS. She is a cinnamon tortie British Shorthair drawn with no eye icon and carrying no variant label. Her mate Lazuli is DNA genotyped DBE-CEL. T…DAMIgrittecinnamon tortie5Maya. black tortie. ReportedTHIS CATMayablack tortie
Bar on top is the grade: Genotyped Wild type Line-traced Reported male   female blue not blue no eye colour recorded a photograph is held a numbered flag marks a record the sources disagree on

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What the pedigree implies

POSSIBLE CARRIER BY DESCENT. DBE-CEL, through Lazuli, Roxi; the Blue Eyed Maine Coons (Markiss) line, no variant identified, through Roxi; the German Longhair (C14) line, no variant identified, through Igritte; the Siberian (C7), from a DBE^ALT to DBE^CEL mating line, no variant identified, through the unnamed female drawn as '??'

This is computed from the recorded parentage each time this site is built and is not typed into the register. It is a deduction from the trait being dominant, not a statement by any source, and it is not the same thing as the record's own status field. Only a laboratory settles it for an individual. The full list is on latent lines.

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
  5. IGRITTE. Segregation. A LITTER OF SIX, TWO SHOWING AND FOUR NOT, WHICH IS WHAT ONE DOMINANT ALLELE IN ONE PARENT PREDICTS. She is a cinnamon tortie British Shorthair drawn with no eye icon and carrying no variant label. Her mate Lazuli is DNA genotyped DBE-CEL. Two of their six are drawn blue or odd and four are bracketed as non-blue-eyed. THE RATIO IS NOT EVIDENCE ON ITS OWN at this size, and it is recorded because it could not be read off this register at all while the four stood as a single row

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
cel-39
Sex
female
Breed, as stated
Celeste line
Eye status
not-blue: no blue eye. Carrier status not known
Eyes, in the source's words
NO EYE ICON IS DRAWN ON HER. The chart brackets her with three littermates as '+4 kittens non-blue-eyed', which is a statement about the eye and is recorded
Role
offspring
Litter key
lazuli-igritte
The description held
black tortie
Evidence grade
Reported asserted, with neither a test nor a traced descent

In the register

Blue Eyes Directory, blueeyesdirectory.com. Record cel-39. This sheet is a snapshot of a register that grows: check the address above for the current version, and for the sources behind every animal named on it.

Source

chart C4, 'CHATTERIE D'AERLIN, Celeste (Celestial)', breeder-compiled, READ AT FULL RESOLUTION 18 August 2026. The chart draws each cat with two eye icons, blue, green or copper, and labels a variant in red beside the cats it attributes one to. NO CAT ON IT CARRIES A GENOTYPE and the red labels are the compiler's attribution

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.