LPL · rs268
Where this position leads
Condition: Metabolic Syndrome
Solid lines are connections this site curates. Dashed lines mean the two ends share a research paper — worth knowing, and not a claim that one explains the other.
What the study found
Who was studied 2,637 European ancestry cases, 7,927 European ancestry controls.
The effect Each copy of the G allele shifted the measure 0.38 mmol/l lower; p = 2 × 10−12.
How common The G allele had a frequency of about 2% in the people studied.
Where it sits Chromosome 8, band 8p21.3 — a missense change in LPL.
What ClinVar records
Classification
Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity for Hyperlipidemia, familial combined, LPL related, Hyperlipidemia, familial combined, susceptibility to, Hyperlipoproteinemia, type I, Cardiovascular phenotype; criteria provided, conflicting classifications (1 of 4 stars, 23 submitters), last evaluated 2026-02-16.
ClinVar record 1550 NM_000237.3(LPL):c.953A>G (p.Asn318Ser)
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 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.
rs268 is a single position in the genome, in or near the LPL gene. Published research associates it with metabolic syndrome. 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 Metabolic Syndrome. The research behind each link, and its sources, are set out on that condition page.
Subjects that appear in the title or abstract of the same papers as this rsID include blood sugar and insulin (4 papers), alcohol and the flush (2 papers), cholesterol and blood fats (2 papers), heart and circulation (2 papers). A shared paper means somebody wrote about the two together; it is not a claim that this position explains the topic.
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, Circ Cardiovasc Genet 2012, PMID:22399527. 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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