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Lynch Syndrome, as genome-wide studies have reported it: 460 positions from 1 study. Built from the GWAS Catalog's records and rebuilt when a new position is reported; the figures are the studies'.
This is the record of what genome-wide association studies have found for Lynch Syndrome (the GWAS Catalog's "Lynch syndrome"): 460 positions reported by 1 study. The page is put together by code from the catalogue's records and the studies' own listings, and it is rebuilt whenever the records change, so it always reflects them as they stand.
A study. From it, 460 positions on this page: rs1060501991 (MSH2), rs1060502944 (MSH6), rs1085308057 (MSH2), rs111052004 (MLH1), rs11541859 (MLH1), rs1244531716 (MSH6), rs12476364 (MSH2), rs1251033858 (MSH6), and 452 more.
The 460 positions lie in or near 4 genes: MSH2, MSH6, MLH1, PMS2. A gene named here is the catalogue's mapped location for a position, not a mechanism; the studies are cited above so that a reader can go to them.
It is a record of what genome-wide studies have reported about Lynch Syndrome, kept current by code. It is not a description of the condition, an estimate of how common it is, or guidance of any kind — a page that took those from association records would be inventing them. Each variant page linked here carries that study's own record for the position in fixed sentences, and ClinVar's record where one exists.
Nothing on this page diagnoses Lynch Syndrome. The 460 variants here are research findings; no guideline uses them to predict, screen for or diagnose the condition — that is a clinician's work.
Its sources are association records, and association records carry no clinical guidance, so neither does this page. What a genome-wide study reports is a difference between groups of people, not a finding about any one person. Symptoms, tests and treatment are questions for a clinician.
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Lynch Syndrome. MyGeneLog™. https://www.mygenelog.com/conditions/lynch-syndrome
In the GWAS Catalog, Lynch Syndrome is filed as "Lynch syndrome". Rather than define it, this page lists the genome-wide findings: 460 positions from 1 study, each with its study's sample and citation.
Genes play a part: 460 positions have been linked to it. But each is a common variant of small effect, and a link found across a population does not cause the condition in any one person.
The positions lie in or near 4 genes: MSH2, MSH6, MLH1, PMS2. A mapped gene is the catalogue's location for a position, not a mechanism.
No. They are population-level findings of small effect. Lynch Syndrome is diagnosed by a clinician, and no guideline uses a genotype to predict it.
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