HMGCR · rs17244834
Where this position leads
Condition: Hypo-HDL-Cholesterolemia
What the study found
Who was studied 5,686 Korean ancestry cases, 45,122 Korean ancestry controls.
The effect The reported allele is T; the catalogue records no effect size ; p = 2 × 10−23.
Where it sits Chromosome 5, band 5q13.3 — in an intron of HMGCR.
rs17244834 is a single position in the genome, in or near the HMGCR gene. Published research associates it with hypercholesterolemia. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.
On MyGeneLog this position is linked to Hypo-HDL-Cholesterolemia. The research behind each link, and its sources, are set out on that condition page.
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, International journal of molecular sciences 2022, PMID:36233190. 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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