WNK1 · rs12828016
Where this position leads
Condition: Waist-to-Hip Ratio (Body Fat Distribution)
What the study found
Who was studied 697,734 European ancestry individuals.
The effect Each copy of the T allele shifted the measure 0.0114 lower (95% confidence interval 0.0079-0.0149); p = 4 × 10−10.
How common The T allele had a frequency of about 39% in the people studied.
Where it sits Chromosome 12, band 12p13.33 — a missense change in WNK1.
What ClinVar records
Classification
Benign for Pseudohypoaldosteronism type 2C, Neuropathy, hereditary sensory and autonomic, type 2A; criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts (2 of 4 stars, 11 submitters), last evaluated 2026-02-04.
ClinVar record 261073 NM_018979.4(WNK1):c.5424G>T (p.Met1808Ile)
What this is ClinVar's aggregate record for this position (as of its 2026-09-24 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.
rs12828016 is a single position in the genome, in or near the WNK1 gene. Published research associates it with waist-hip ratio. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.
On MyGeneLog this position is linked to Waist-to-Hip Ratio (Body Fat Distribution). The research behind each link, and its sources, are set out on that condition page.
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, Hum Mol Genet 2018, PMID:30239722. 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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