We report a subcutaneous mastocytoma in a mid-aged Italian greyhound dog with a small 41 bp genomic deletion of the c-kit gene leading to skipping of the authentic 3′-splice junction of intron 10. The shift to an alternative splice junction in exon 11 leads to a mis-spliced in-frame mRNA transcript with a 27 bp deletion of exon 11 coding for 9 amino acids in the juxtamembrane negative... https://www.duospiritalis.com/