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Brown vs. black hair color

TCF25 · rs117243052

Where this position leads

Condition: Hair Color

rs117243052 Condition: Hair Color Hair Color Condition rs117243052 rs117243052 TCF25

What the study found

Who was studied 269,394 British ancestry brown hair individuals, 14,526 British ancestry black hair individuals.

The effect The reported allele is T; the catalogue records no effect size ; p = 1 × 10−11.

How common The T allele had a frequency of about 1% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 16, band 16q24.3 — in an intron of TCF25.

What each result means

C/C No copy of the version the research linked to Brown vs. black hair color. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.
C/T One copy of the version the research linked to Brown vs. black hair color. That is a smaller link than two copies.
T/T Two copies of the version the research linked to Brown vs. black hair color. That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.
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Questions about rs117243052

What is rs117243052?

rs117243052 is a single position in the genome, in or near the TCF25 gene. Published research associates it with brown vs. black hair color. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

What conditions is rs117243052 linked to?

On MyGeneLog this position is linked to Hair Color. The research behind each link, and its sources, are set out on that condition page.

Does having rs117243052 mean I will get this?

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.

Where does the information about rs117243052 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Nature communications 2018, PMID:30531825. 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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