GHRL · rs143729751
Stands on its own. Nothing else here links to this position yet — but the page above is the point: what the research found, what each genotype means, and where it came from, in language you can read. Links to conditions, drugs and the senses appear automatically if we write them.
What the study found
Who was studied 6,259 European ancestry individuals; replicated in 4,483 European ancestry individuals.
The effect Each copy of the T allele shifted the measure 1.33 higher (95% confidence interval 1.22-1.44); p = 5 × 10−126.
Where it sits Chromosome 3, band 3p25.3 — in an intron of GHRL.
rs143729751 is a single position in the genome, in or near the GHRL gene. Published research associates it with ghrelin levels. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.
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, Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 2023, PMID:37791980. 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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