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White matter hyperintensity volume

VCAN · rs17205972

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 2,516 African American individuals, 48,454 European ancestry individuals.

The effect Each copy of the T allele shifted the measure 0.0492 higher (95% confidence interval 0.035-0.063); p = 5 × 10⁻¹².

How common The T allele had a frequency of about 20% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 5, band 5q14.3 — in an intron of VCAN-AS1.

What each result means

G/G No copy of the version the research linked to White matter hyperintensity volume. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.

G/T One copy of the version the research linked to White matter hyperintensity volume. That is a smaller link than two copies.

T/T Two copies of the version the research linked to White matter hyperintensity volume. That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.

Source

Cerebral small vessel disease genomics and its implications across the lifespan

Sargurupremraj M, Suzuki H, Jian X, Sarnowski C, Evans TE, Bis JC, Eiriksdottir G, Sakaue S, Terzikhan N, Habes M, Zhao W, Zhao W

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Armstrong NJ, Hofer E, Yanek LR, Hagenaars SP, Kumar RB, van den Akker EB, McWhirter RE, Trompet S, Mishra A, Saba Y, Satizabal CL, Beaudet G, Petit L, Tsuchida A, Zago L, Schilling S, Sigurdsson S, Gottesman RF, Lewis CE, Aggarwal NT, Lopez OL, Smith JA, Valdés Hernández MC, van der Grond J, Wright MJ, Knol MJ, Dörr M, Thomson RJ, Bordes C, Le Grand Q, Duperron MG, Smith AV, Knopman DS, Schreiner PJ, Evans DA, Rotter JI, Beiser AS, Maniega SM, Beekman M, Trollor J, Stott DJ, Vernooij MW, Wittfeld K, Niessen WJ, Soumaré A, Boerwinkle E, Sidney S, Turner ST, Davies G, Thalamuthu A, Völker U, van Buchem MA, Bryan RN, Dupuis J, Bastin ME, Ames D, Teumer A, Amouyel P, Kwok JB, Bülow R, Deary IJ, Schofield PR, Brodaty H, Jiang J, Tabara Y, Setoh K, Miyamoto S, Yoshida K, Nagata M, Kamatani Y, Matsuda F, Psaty BM, Bennett DA, De Jager PL, Mosley TH, Sachdev PS, Schmidt R, Warren HR, Evangelou E, Trégouët DA, Ikram MA, Wen W, DeCarli C, Srikanth VK, Jukema JW, Slagboom EP, Kardia SLR, Okada Y, Mazoyer B, Wardlaw JM, Nyquist PA, Mather KA, Grabe HJ, Schmidt H, Van Duijn CM, Gudnason V, Longstreth WT Jr, Launer LJ, Lathrop M, Seshadri S, Tzourio C, Adams HH, Matthews PM, Fornage M, Debette S

International Network against Thrombosis (INVENT) Consortium · International Headache Genomics Consortium (IHGC)

Nature communications · 2020 · PMID 33293549 · open access

Questions about rs17205972

What is rs17205972?

rs17205972 is a single position in the genome, in or near the VCAN gene. Published research associates it with white matter hyperintensity volume. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

Does having rs17205972 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 rs17205972 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Nature communications 2020, PMID:33293549. 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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