Sensitive

Bladder cancer

PSCA · rs2294008

Where this position leads

Condition: Bladder Cancer

rs2294008 Condition: Bladder Cancer Bladder Cancer Condition Topic: Natural selection Natural selection Topic rs2294008 rs2294008 PSCA

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What the study found

Who was studied 969 European ancestry cases, 957 European ancestry controls; replicated in 5,698 European ancestry cases, 38,633 European ancestry controls.

The effect Each copy of the T allele carried 1.15 times the odds of Bladder cancer (95% confidence interval 1.10-1.20); p = 2 × 10−10.

How common The T allele had a frequency of about 46% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 8, band 8q24.3 — in the 5′ untranslated region of PSCA.

What ClinVar records

Classification Benign; criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts (2 of 4 stars, 2 submitters), last evaluated 2025-01-28. ClinVar record 704509 NC_000008.11:g.142680513C>T

What this is ClinVar's aggregate record for this position (as of its 2026-10-19 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.

What each result means

C/C No copy of the version the research linked to Bladder cancer. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.
C/T One copy of the version the research linked to Bladder cancer. That is a smaller link than two copies.
T/T Two copies of the version the research linked to Bladder cancer. That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.
Source

What people read about alongside this

Papers in Europe PMC whose title or abstract names both this rsID and that subject. A shared paper means somebody wrote about the two together — it is not a claim that this position explains the subject.

In the news

2026-08-08 · Prokunina-Olsson L, et al. Nature Communications 2026, PMID:42706231

Multi-population GWAS meta-analysis identifies bladder cancer susceptibility loci and highlights genetic regulation of smoking-related risk

Newly curated by the GWAS Catalog: 141 associations across 1 trait ("Bladder cancer"), from Prokunina-Olsson L, et al. in Nature Communications, 2026. Sample in the catalogue's record: 30,156 cases and 1,527,568 controls. Of its 70 positions, 33 already have pages here — 16 on the Bladder Cancer page; 1 on the Lung Cancer page; 1 on the Ulcerative Colitis page — including rs2294008 (PSCA), rs10094872 (MYC), rs2242652 (TERT). Put together by code from the catalogue's records; for anything more, follow the link to the paper. PMID:42706231.

Questions about rs2294008

What is rs2294008?

rs2294008 is a single position in the genome, in or near the PSCA gene. Published research associates it with bladder cancer. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

What conditions is rs2294008 linked to?

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

What do people read about alongside rs2294008?

Subjects that appear in the title or abstract of the same papers as this rsID include natural selection (3 papers), alcohol and the flush (1 papers), kidneys (1 papers). A shared paper means somebody wrote about the two together; it is not a claim that this position explains the topic.

Does having rs2294008 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 rs2294008 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Nat Genet 2009, PMID:19648920. 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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