Sensitive

Colorectal cancer

near SCG5 · rs16969681

Where this position leads

What the study found

Who was studied 31,197 European ancestry cases, 61,770 European ancestry controls.

The effect Each copy of the T allele carried 1.22 times the odds of Colorectal cancer (95% confidence interval 1.18-1.27); p = 3 × 10⁻²⁷.

How common The T allele had a frequency of about 9% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 15, band 15q13.3 — between genes, 3.8 kb from SCG5.

What each result means

C/C No copy of the version the research linked to Colorectal cancer. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.

C/T One copy of the version the research linked to Colorectal cancer. That is a smaller link than two copies.

T/T Two copies of the version the research linked to Colorectal cancer. That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.

Source

Association analyses identify 31 new risk loci for colorectal cancer susceptibility

Law PJ, Timofeeva M, Fernandez-Rozadilla C, Broderick P, Studd J, Fernandez-Tajes J, Farrington S, Svinti V, Palles C, Orlando G, Sud A, Holroyd A

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Penegar S, Theodoratou E, Vaughan-Shaw P, Campbell H, Zgaga L, Hayward C, Campbell A, Harris S, Deary IJ, Starr J, Gatcombe L, Pinna M, Briggs S, Martin L, Jaeger E, Sharma-Oates A, East J, Leedham S, Arnold R, Johnstone E, Wang H, Kerr D, Kerr R, Maughan T, Kaplan R, Al-Tassan N, Palin K, Hänninen UA, Cajuso T, Tanskanen T, Kondelin J, Kaasinen E, Sarin AP, Eriksson JG, Rissanen H, Knekt P, Pukkala E, Jousilahti P, Salomaa V, Ripatti S, Palotie A, Renkonen-Sinisalo L, Lepistö A, Böhm J, Mecklin JP, Buchanan DD, Win AK, Hopper J, Jenkins ME, Lindor NM, Newcomb PA, Gallinger S, Duggan D, Casey G, Hoffmann P, Nöthen MM, Jöckel KH, Easton DF, Pharoah PDP, Peto J, Canzian F, Swerdlow A, Eeles RA, Kote-Jarai Z, Muir K, Pashayan N, Harkin A, Allan K, McQueen J, Paul J, Iveson T, Saunders M, Butterbach K, Chang-Claude J, Hoffmeister M, Brenner H, Kirac I, Matošević P, Hofer P, Brezina S, Gsur A, Cheadle JP, Aaltonen LA, Tomlinson I, Houlston RS, Dunlop MG

PRACTICAL consortium

Nature communications · 2019 · PMID 31089142 · open access

What people read about alongside this

Blood sugar and insulin1

Papers in Europe PMC whose title or abstract names both this rsID and that subject. A shared paper means somebody wrote about the two together — it is not a claim that this position explains the subject.

Questions about rs16969681

What is rs16969681?

rs16969681 is a single position in the genome, in or near the near SCG5 gene. Published research associates it with colorectal cancer. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

What conditions is rs16969681 linked to?

On MyGeneLog this position is linked to Colorectal Cancer. The research behind each link, and its sources, are set out on that condition page.

What do people read about alongside rs16969681?

Subjects that appear in the title or abstract of the same papers as this rsID include blood sugar and insulin (1 papers). A shared paper means somebody wrote about the two together; it is not a claim that this position explains the topic.

Does having rs16969681 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 rs16969681 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Nat Commun 2019, PMID:31089142. 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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