Sensitive

Alzheimer's disease in APOE e44 or e43 genotype

near TSBP1-AS1 · rs17208902

Where this position leads

What the study found

Who was studied 29,122 European ancestry cases, 164,206 European ancestry controls.

The effect Each copy of the T allele carried 1.11 times the odds of Alzheimer's disease in APOE e44 or e43 genotype (95% confidence interval 1.08-1.14); p = 5 × 10⁻¹³.

How common The T allele had a frequency of about 26% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 6, band 6p21.32 — between genes, 4 kb from TSBP1-AS1.

What each result means

C/C No copy of the version the research linked to Alzheimer's disease in APOE e44 or e43 genotype. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.

C/T One copy of the version the research linked to Alzheimer's disease in APOE e44 or e43 genotype. That is a smaller link than two copies.

T/T Two copies of the version the research linked to Alzheimer's disease in APOE e44 or e43 genotype. That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.

Source

APOE-stratified genome-wide association analyses provide insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimers's disease

Thomassen JQ, Leonard H, Ulms B, Grenier-Boley B, Heikkinen S, Garcia-González P, Castillo-Morales A, Kikuchi M, Gim J, Cao H, Küçükali F, Amin N

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Nature genetics · 2026 · PMID 42736378 · open access

Questions about rs17208902

What is rs17208902?

rs17208902 is a single position in the genome, in or near the near TSBP1-AS1 gene. Published research associates it with alzheimer's disease in apoe e44 or e43 genotype. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

What conditions is rs17208902 linked to?

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

Does having rs17208902 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 rs17208902 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Nature genetics 2026, PMID:42736378. 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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