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MC1R · rs1805008
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Strength of the evidence
Its strongest genetic-study result is p = 10−308, with 10 associations in the GWAS Catalog.
4: ClinVar disease-causing, reviewed by an expert panel or a guideline (3–4 stars). 3: ClinVar, several labs agreeing (2 stars), or a genetic study at p ≤ 10−50. 2: ClinVar from one lab (1 star), or p ≤ 10−20. 1: ClinVar submitted without criteria (0 stars), or genome-wide significance (p ≤ 5×10−8). The higher of the two counts. It says how solid the evidence is, not whether it matters for a particular person.
What the study found
Who was studied 1,311,438 European ancestry individuals.
The effect Each copy of the T allele shifted the measure 0.0188 higher (95% confidence interval 0.014-0.024); p = 2 × 10−15.
How common The T allele had a frequency of about 8% in the people studied.
Where it sits Chromosome 16, band 16q24.3 — a missense change in MC1R.
What ClinVar records
Classification
Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity for Skin/hair/eye pigmentation 2, red hair/fair skin, ALBINISM, OCULOCUTANEOUS, TYPE II, MODIFIER OF, Increased analgesia from kappa-opioid receptor agonist, female-specific, Melanoma, cutaneous malignant, susceptibility to, 5, Malignant tumor of breast and 2 more; criteria provided, conflicting classifications (1 of 4 stars, 10 submitters), last evaluated 2026-05-14.
ClinVar record 14310 NM_002386.4(MC1R):c.478C>T (p.Arg160Trp)
Change history MyGeneLog™ keeps a copy of every weekly release from 2026-10-19 and compares them. This position's classification has not changed since.
What this is ClinVar's aggregate record for this position (as of its 2026-11-09 release), not a result about you. A classification describes the variant against the condition named, as laboratories submitted it. Whether a person carries this variant, and what that would mean for them, is a question for a clinical test and a genetic counsellor.
How common each version is
CT
C 95.4% · T 4.6%
C 98.5% · T 1.5%
C 95.9% · T 4.1%
By ancestry gnomAD
C 100.0%
C 92.3% · T 7.7%
C 98.7% · T 1.3%
C 99.5%
C 98.7% · T 1.3%
C 98.0% · T 2.0%
C 93.9% · T 6.1%
C 94.0% · T 6.0%
The share of all copies of this position that are each version. Source: the population studies published in dbSNP (US NCBI); each row names its study. The ancestry rows are gnomAD's own groups (via Ensembl), as the survey defines them, not races. No Korean figure for this position yet.
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Educational attainment (MTAG) (rs1805008). MyGeneLog™. https://www.mygenelog.com/variants/rs1805008