We will investigate why the moose is white. By comparing the genomes of white and brown moose, we expect to find gene variants associated the white fur. The fur's pale coat color is an example of leucism - a collective name for white or pale yellow animals whose eyes are still dark, in contrast to red-eyed albinos. We have access to a samples from a few white moose, and more samples will be collected. Solid white and white spotted moose has not only been described in Värmland, but also in other parts of Sweden as well as in North America. Among the indigenous American people, these moose are called "White Spirit Moose", and considered sacred. Arguments for projects extending: During last hunting season we collected 15 samples of white moose from Sweden. At the second part of our study (end of 2022-2023) we plan to whole genome sequence some of these samples and add to our data for the analysis. Another part of the work is alignment of the moose samples with the moose genome and comparison of the genome variants mapped to both cattle and moose genomes. Due to the mapping to the cattle genome, the variant filtering resulted in a high number of 1/1 variants. To exclude non-moose variants corresponding to reference cattle variants, we have mapped the moose’s samples (both white and brown) to the moose genome as well. In the next stage of the work (end of 2022-2023) we plan to filter out the wild type variants of moose (i.e. have variants 0/0 for moose and 1/1 for cattle). It will also help us to better investigate the moose genome in general.