Sensitive

Breast cancer

MIER3 · rs11957276

Where this position leads

Condition: Breast Cancer

rs11957276 Condition: Breast Cancer Breast Cancer Condition rs11957276 rs11957276 MIER3

What the study found

Who was studied 17,881 European ancestry female cases, 219,656 European ancestry female controls.

The effect The reported allele is G; the catalogue records no effect size ; p = 5 × 10−11.

Where it sits Chromosome 5, band 5q11.2 — in an intron of MIER3.

What each result means

A/A No copy of the version the research linked to Breast cancer. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.
A/G One copy of the version the research linked to Breast cancer. That is a smaller link than two copies.
G/G Two copies of the version the research linked to Breast cancer. That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.
Source

Questions about rs11957276

What is rs11957276?

rs11957276 is a single position in the genome, in or near the MIER3 gene. Published research associates it with breast cancer. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

What conditions is rs11957276 linked to?

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

Does having rs11957276 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 rs11957276 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Nature communications 2020, PMID:32887889. 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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