RTEL1 · rs117238689
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What the study found
Who was studied 327,790 British ancestry individuals.
The effect Each copy of the T allele shifted the measure 0.057 lower (95% confidence interval 0.043-0.071); p = 2 × 10−14.
How common The T allele had a frequency of about 3% in the people studied.
Where it sits Chromosome 20, band 20q13.33 — in an intron of RTEL1.
What ClinVar records
Classification
Benign; criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts (2 of 4 stars, 2 submitters), last evaluated 2019-02-11.
ClinVar record 1251731 NM_001283009.2(RTEL1):c.2851+48C>T
What this is ClinVar's aggregate record for this position (as of its 2026-10-12 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.
rs117238689 is a single position in the genome, in or near the RTEL1 gene. Published research associates it with leukocyte telomere length. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.
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, GeroScience 2024, PMID:38837026. Every variant on MyGeneLog comes from public primary sources and is published with its citation and the date it was checked.
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Leukocyte telomere length (rs117238689). MyGeneLog™. https://www.mygenelog.com/variants/rs117238689