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Age-related hearing impairment

SLC26A5 · rs141952919

What the study found

Who was studied 121,934 European ancestry cases, 591,699 European ancestry controls.

The effect Each copy of the G allele carried 1.28 times the odds of Age-related hearing impairment; p = 2 × 10−13.

How common The G allele had a frequency of about 52% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 7, band 7q22.1 — a missense change in SLC26A5.

What ClinVar records

Classification Benign/Likely benign for Autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing loss 61, SLC26A5-related disorder; criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts (2 of 4 stars, 8 submitters), last evaluated 2025-12-19. ClinVar record 165272 NM_198999.3(SLC26A5):c.137T>C (p.Leu46Pro)

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.

What each result means

A/A No copy of the version the research linked to Age-related hearing impairment. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.
A/G One copy of the version the research linked to Age-related hearing impairment. That is a smaller link than two copies.
G/G Two copies of the version the research linked to Age-related hearing impairment. That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.
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Questions about rs141952919

What is rs141952919?

rs141952919 is a single position in the genome, in or near the SLC26A5 gene. Published research associates it with age-related hearing impairment. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

Does having rs141952919 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 rs141952919 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Communications biology 2021, PMID:34108613. 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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