Sensitive

Diabetes / "Sugar"

ANK1 · rs12544241

Strength of the evidence

1 / 4

Its strongest genetic-study result is p = 10−12, with 6 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 16,718 African American or Afro-Caribbean cases, 38,787 African American or Afro-Caribbean controls.

The effect Each copy of the G allele shifted the measure 0.11 lower (95% confidence interval 0.08-0.139); p = 1 × 10−12.

How common The G allele had a frequency of about 30% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 8, band 8p11.21 — in an intron of ANK1.

How common each version is

AG
Korean KRGDB
A 42.8% · G 57.2%
Korean Korea4K
A 42.6% · G 57.4%
Korean Korea1K
A 43.5% · G 56.5%
Japanese ToMMo
A 51.0% · G 49.0%
Vietnamese
A 32.6% · G 67.5%
World gnomAD
A 60.0% · G 40.0%
World 1000 Genomes
A 58.6% · G 41.4%
World TOPMed
A 60.6% · G 39.5%

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.

What each result means

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

Questions about rs12544241

What is rs12544241?

rs12544241 is a single position in the genome, in or near the ANK1 gene. Published research associates it with diabetes / "sugar". A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

Does having rs12544241 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 rs12544241 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Science (New York, N.Y.) 2024, PMID:39024449. 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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