MECOM · rs2421647
Where this position leads
Condition: Medication Use as a Genetic Trait
What the study found
Who was studied 34,453 European ancestry cases, 194,633 European ancestry controls.
The effect Each copy of the C allele shifted the measure 0.0446 higher (95% confidence interval 0.029-0.06); p = 2 × 10−8.
How common The C allele had a frequency of about 46% in the people studied.
Where it sits Chromosome 3, band 3q26.2 — in an intron of MECOM.
rs2421647 is a single position in the genome, in or near the MECOM gene. Published research associates it with medication use (diuretics). 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 Medication Use as a Genetic Trait. 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, Nat Commun 2019, PMID:31015401. 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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