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Strength of the evidence
1 / 4
Its strongest genetic-study result is p = 10−18, with 9 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 up to 104,666 European ancestry male individuals, up to 132,115 European ancestry female individuals, 370 African American male individuals, 517 African American female individuals, 512 Hispanic male individuals, 764 Hispanic female individuals; replicated in up to 48,274 European ancestry male individuals, up to 39,864 European ancestry female individuals, 2,441 African American or Afro-Caribbean male individuals, 6,314 African American or Afro-Caribbean female individuals, 919 Filipino male individuals, 828 Filipino female individuals, 205 Seychellois male individuals, 287 Seychellois female individuals, 2,964 South Asian ancestry male individuals, 658 South Asian ancestry female individuals.
The effect
Each copy of the T allele shifted the measure 0.03 kg/m2 higher (95% confidence interval 0.024-0.037); p = 2 × 10−18.
How common The T allele had a frequency of about 77% in the people studied.
Where it sits Chromosome 15, band 15q23 — in an intron of MAP2K5.
How common each version is
CT
By ancestry gnomAD
East Asian
C 59.6% · T 40.4%
European (non-Finnish)
C 22.1% · T 78.0%
African / African American
C 39.4% · T 60.6%
South Asian
C 35.1% · T 64.9%
Admixed American (Latino)
C 43.5% · T 56.5%
Middle Eastern
C 29.2% · T 70.8%
Finnish
C 14.8% · T 85.2%
Ashkenazi Jewish
C 36.5% · T 63.5%
The share of all copies of this position that are each version. The ancestry rows are gnomAD's own groups (via Ensembl), as the survey defines them, not races.
What each result means
C/CNo copy of the version the research linked to Body mass index. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.
C/TOne copy of the version the research linked to Body mass index. That is a smaller link than two copies.
T/TTwo copies of the version the research linked to Body mass index. That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.
DNA databases also record a third, rare version at this position, carried on fewer than one in a hundred copies of the DNA. The three results above cover the two common versions only.
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Body mass index (rs16951275). MyGeneLog™. https://www.mygenelog.com/variants/rs16951275