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Refractive error

near PLCL1 · rs897399

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.

Strength of the evidence

1 / 4

Its strongest genetic-study result is p = 10⁻⁸, with 1 associations in the GWAS Catalog.

How this is scored

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 1,495,159 European ancestry individuals.

The effect Each copy of the A allele shifted the measure 0.00877 SD unit lower (95% confidence interval 0.0058-0.0117); p = 7 × 10⁻⁹.

How common The A allele had a frequency of about 52% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 2, band 2q33.1 — between genes, 62.7 kb from PLCL1.

How common each version is

AG

Korean KRGDB

A 55.7% · G 44.3%

Korean Korea4K

A 56.7% · G 43.3%

Japanese ToMMo

A 56.8% · G 43.2%

Vietnamese

A 63.5% · G 36.4%

World gnomAD

A 60.8% · G 39.2%

World 1000 Genomes

A 65.9% · G 34.1%

World TOPMed

A 62.6% · G 37.4%

By ancestry gnomAD

East Asian

A 61.0% · G 39.0%

European (non-Finnish)

A 55.6% · G 44.4%

African / African American

A 74.3% · G 25.7%

South Asian

A 70.7% · G 29.3%

Admixed American (Latino)

A 55.9% · G 44.1%

Middle Eastern

A 60.3% · G 39.7%

Finnish

A 45.8% · G 54.2%

Ashkenazi Jewish

A 53.0% · G 47.0%

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.

What each result means

A/A Two copies of the version the research linked to Refractive error. That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.

A/G One copy of the version the research linked to Refractive error. That is a smaller link than two copies.

G/G No copy of the version the research linked to Refractive error. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.

Source

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses of refractive error augment genetic discovery and polygenic prediction

Cheng FF, Liu X, Mi H, Wang L, Ma R, Guo Y, Sidorenko J, Jiang C, Islam T, Meguro A, Hikino K, Ishikawa Y

and 15 more — show all

Tang S, Li T, Chen R, Wang L, Mägi R, Metspalu A, Takeuchi M, Mizuki N, Choquet H, Jin ZB, Chen G, Zhou K, Terao C, Zeng J, Yang J

Estonian Biobank Research Team · 23andMe Research Team

Nature genetics · 2026 · PMID 42009823 · open access

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Refractive error (rs897399). MyGeneLog™. https://www.mygenelog.com/variants/rs897399

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