RET · rs2472738
Where this position leads
Conditions: Obesity and Body Weight, Childhood Body Mass Index
Strength of the evidence
Its strongest genetic-study result is p = 10−13, with 1 associations in the GWAS Catalog.
4: ClinVar disease-causing, reviewed by an expert panel or a guideline (3–4 stars). 3: ClinVar, several labs agreeing (2 stars), or a genetic study at p ≤ 10−50. 2: ClinVar from one lab (1 star), or p ≤ 10−20. 1: ClinVar submitted without criteria (0 stars), or genome-wide significance (p ≤ 5×10−8). The higher of the two counts. It says how solid the evidence is, not whether it matters for a particular person.
What the study found
Who was studied 507,850 East Asian ancestry individuals, 420,829 European ancestry individuals.
The effect Each copy of the T allele shifted the measure 0.0115 higher (95% confidence interval 0.0084-0.0146); p = 1 × 10−13.
Where it sits Chromosome 10, band 10q11.21 — in an intron of RET.
rs2472738 is a single position in the genome, in or near the RET gene. Published research associates it with body mass index. 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 Obesity and Body Weight, Childhood Body Mass Index. 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, Nature communications 2025, PMID:40436827. 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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