Coat Colour G-Locus (White Gloves) – Birman

Birman cats have clearly defined white feet (“gloves”) as part of their breed standard. This characteristic gloving is caused by a variant in the KIT gene and is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait. A cat must have two copies of the mutation in order to have the gloved white feet. Besides the Birman cats, this genetic variant occurs in lower frequencies in other breeds without leading to the typical Birman gloving.