Coat Color

Cinnamon

Alternative Names: Light Brown

Cinnamon Photo

The Cinnamon variant results in light brown or cinnamon colored hair instead of black or brown hair.

More Info

Did you know?

A cinnamon coat color is the result of lower amounts of dark pigment in the hair. Fawn, the dilute version of the cinnamon coat color, is considered one of the rarer coat colors as it requires two copies of the recessive Cinnamon variant as well as two copies of the recessive Dilution variant.

How it works

Two copies of the Cinnamon variant result in cinnamon coat color.

Prevalence

1 in 16 cats

has one or more copy of this genetic variant in our testing.

Technical Details

Gene TYRP
Variant C>T
Chromosome D4
Coordinate 40,069,161

All coordinates reference FelCat9.0

References & Credit

Credit to our scientific colleagues:

Lyons, L. A., Foe, I. T., Rah, H. C., & Grahn, R. A. (2005). Chocolate coated cats: TYRP1 mutations for brown color in domestic cats. Mammalian Genome, 16(5), 356–366. View the article

Schmidt-Küntzel, A., Eizirik, E., O’Brien, S. J., & Menotti-Raymond, M. (2005). Tyrosinase and tyrosinase related protein I alleles specify domestic cat coat color phenotypes of the albino and brown loci. Journal of Heredity, 96(4), 289–301. View the article