FGF5 · rs199649605
Where this position leads
Condition: Hirsutism
What the study found
Who was studied 502 Finnish ancestry female cases, 219,249 Finnish ancestry female controls.
The effect Each copy of the T allele carried 5.02 times the odds of Hirsutism (95% confidence interval 3.06-8.21); p = 1 × 10−10.
How common The T allele had a frequency of about 0% in the people studied.
Where it sits Chromosome 4, band 4q21.21 — a missense change in FGF5.
rs199649605 is a single position in the genome, in or near the FGF5 gene. Published research associates it with hirsutism. 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 Hirsutism. 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, The Journal of investigative dermatology 2026, PMID:42190866. 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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