near RPL5P16 · rs17250520
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 47,745 European ancestry individuals.
The effect Each copy of the A allele shifted the measure 0.0634 lower (95% confidence interval 0.053-0.074); p = 4 × 10−38.
How common The A allele had a frequency of about 43% in the people studied.
Where it sits Chromosome 5, band 5q14.2 — between genes, 185.2 kb from RPL5P16.
rs17250520 is a single position in the genome, in or near the near RPL5P16 gene. Published research associates it with vcan protein levels. 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, Nature genetics 2025, PMID:39789286. 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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VCAN protein levels (rs17250520). MyGeneLog™. https://www.mygenelog.com/variants/rs17250520