LOC728241 · rs17007761
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.
rs17007761 is a single position in the genome, in or near the LOC728241 gene. Published research associates it with immune reponse to smallpox (secreted ifn-alpha). 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, Hum Genet 2012, PMID:22610502. Every variant on MyGeneLog comes from public primary sources and is published with its citation and the date it was checked.