MERTK · rs4374383
Stands on its own. Nothing else here links to this position yet — but the page above is the point: what the research found, what each genotype means, and where it came from, in language you can read. Links to conditions, drugs and the senses appear automatically if we write them.
Source: GWAS Catalog, Gastroenterology 2012, PMID:22841784
What people read about alongside this
Papers in Europe PMC whose title or abstract names both this rsID and that subject. A shared paper means somebody wrote about the two together — it is not a claim that this position explains the subject.
rs4374383 is a single position in the genome, in or near the MERTK gene. Published research associates it with hepatitis c induced liver fibrosis. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.
Subjects that appear in the title or abstract of the same papers as this rsID include liver (7 papers), infection and immunity (6 papers). A shared paper means somebody wrote about the two together; it is not a claim that this position explains the topic.
No. Common variants like this one move a probability slightly and, on their own, rarely decide anything about one person. Nothing on this page is a diagnosis, and health decisions should be made with a clinician who can see your whole picture.
GWAS Catalog, Gastroenterology 2012, PMID:22841784. Every variant on MyGeneLog comes from public primary sources and is published with its citation and the date it was checked.