POLG2 · rs17850455
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 395,718 British, Irish, Other White, South Asian, African ancestry individuals.
The effect Each copy of the G allele shifted the measure 0.091 higher (95% confidence interval 0.071-0.111); p = 2 × 10−18.
How common The G allele had a frequency of about 0% in the people studied.
Where it sits Chromosome 17, band 17q23.3 — a missense change in POLG2.
What ClinVar records
Classification
Benign/Likely benign for Progressive external ophthalmoplegia with mitochondrial DNA deletions, autosomal dominant 4, Hereditary spastic paraplegia; criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts (2 of 4 stars, 10 submitters), last evaluated 2026-06-01.
ClinVar record 138783 NM_007215.4(POLG2):c.1247G>C (p.Gly416Ala)
What this is ClinVar's aggregate record for this position (as of its 2026-10-12 release), not a result about you. A classification describes the variant against the condition named, as laboratories submitted it. Whether a person carries this variant, and what that would mean for them, is a question for a clinical test and a genetic counsellor.
rs17850455 is a single position in the genome, in or near the POLG2 gene. Published research associates it with mitochondrial dna copy number. 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, eLife 2022, PMID:35023831. 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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Mitochondrial DNA copy number (rs17850455). MyGeneLog™. https://www.mygenelog.com/variants/rs17850455