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Ok, I have a marble female, not a show cat was going to be just a pet, that just had a litter (accident) of kittens and the father is my black/silver tipped persian, DNA Confirmed, and I had a question about 2 of the kittens' colors!!! She had 5 kittens, 3 girls and 2 boys, the girls are just what I thought they would be, one spotted (like mom), one black with some silver (like dad), and the other is black with marbled silver details (perfect from both). But the question I had was the boys, who by the way are idt. twins (DNA confirmed again) (also, her 2nd set, one from first litter), They are marbled orange with white framed faces!!!! Our vet said all of the kittens were fathered by the persian, but where could the orange come from?????????????????????

You mentioned the mother was marbled -- does she have any orange on her at all?

I am not an expert, but I suspect it could also be a recessive gene in either if neither parent has orange... I say this because I am a red head, as is one of my cousins, and none of our four collective parents have red hair. At all. Our joint grandmother on our mothers' side had auburn hair, however. So, the red hair skipped a generation. Might be what happened with your cats.

This is the first I've ever heard of running a DNA test on kittens. But, after hearing it, I would suspect it would be common in the show-cat/breeding world if there were any questions... Interesting.
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The father cat is a silver Persian, and you said the mother is 'marbled' ... is she also a Persian?

Color genes in cats can be a tricky thing to predict. For an example, a sealpoint Persian female mated to a shaded silver Persian produced brown tabbies, black smokes, sealpoints, seallynxpoint, bluelynxpoints, and solid blacks. Another example is a brown tabby DSH mated to an orange tabby DSH which produced not only brown tabbies, but solid blacks and sealpoints! I am guessing there is a 'red' cat somewhere in your cats' backgrounds which produced the 'orange' tabbies. If your cats are purebred, ask the breeder(s) for background on the lines of your cats.

Just a question ... when you had all of the DNA tests done, were DNA tests also done on the parent Persians for polycystic kidney disease?

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