HERC2 · rs147936809
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 4,933 Iberian ancestry individuals.
The effect Each copy of the A allele shifted the measure 4.25 higher (95% confidence interval 3.02-5.47); p = 1 × 10−11.
How common The A allele had a frequency of about 6% in the people studied.
Where it sits Chromosome 15, band 15q13.1 — in an intron of HERC2.
rs147936809 is a single position in the genome, in or near the HERC2 gene. Published research associates it with skin phototype score. 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, Genes 2023, PMID:36672889. 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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Skin phototype score (rs147936809). MyGeneLog™. https://www.mygenelog.com/variants/rs147936809