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Triglyceride levels

FBXL17 · rs288159

Stands on its own. Nothing else here links to this position yet — but the page above is the point: what the research found, what each genotype means, and where it came from, in language you can read. Links to conditions, drugs and the senses appear automatically if we write them.

Strength of the evidence

1 / 4

Its strongest genetic-study result is p = 10⁻¹², with 2 associations in the GWAS Catalog.

How this is scored

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 0.0113 lower (95% confidence interval 0.0082-0.0144); p = 3 × 10⁻¹².

Where it sits Chromosome 5, band 5q21.3 — in an intron of FBXL17.

How common each version is

CT

Korean KRGDB

C 45.6% · T 54.4%

Korean Korea4K

C 46.0% · T 54.0%

Korean Korea1K

C 45.0% · T 55.0%

Japanese ToMMo

C 48.8% · T 51.2%

Vietnamese

C 44.9% · T 55.1%

World gnomAD

C 65.3% · T 34.7%

World 1000 Genomes

C 58.4% · T 41.6%

World TOPMed

C 65.8% · T 34.2%

The share of all copies of this position that are each version. Source: the population studies published in dbSNP (US NCBI); each row names its study.

What each result means

C/C No copy of the version the research linked to Triglyceride levels. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.

C/T One copy of the version the research linked to Triglyceride levels. That is a smaller link than two copies.

T/T Two copies of the version the research linked to Triglyceride levels. That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.

Source

Genome-wide association studies in a large Korean cohort identify quantitative trait loci for 36 traits and illuminate their genetic architectures

Jee YH, Wang Y, Jung KJ, Lee JY, Kimm H, Duan R, Price AL, Martin AR, Kraft P

Nature communications · 2025 · PMID 40436827 · open access

Questions about rs288159

What is rs288159?

rs288159 is a single position in the genome, in or near the FBXL17 gene. Published research associates it with triglyceride levels. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

Does having rs288159 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 rs288159 come from?

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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