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white blood cell count (WBC, minimum, inv-norm transformed)
PALM2AKAP2 · rs4978409
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What the study found
Who was studied 108,942 African American or Afro-Caribbean individuals, 49,991 Hispanic or Latin American individuals, 5,838 East Asian ancestry individuals, 381,267 European ancestry individuals.
The effect
Each copy of the C allele shifted the measure 0.0372 lower (95% confidence interval 0.028-0.047); p = 4 × 10−15.
How common The C allele had a frequency of about 89% in the people studied.
Where it sits Chromosome 9, band 9q31.3 — in an intron of PALM2AKAP2.
What each result means
C/C
Published research associates this genotype (two copies of the reported risk allele) with a higher likelihood of white blood cell count (WBC, minimum, inv-norm transformed) compared to the general population.
C/T
Published research associates this genotype (one copy of the reported risk allele) with an intermediate association with white blood cell count (WBC, minimum, inv-norm transformed).
T/T
Published research associates this genotype with typical/baseline likelihood of white blood cell count (WBC, minimum, inv-norm transformed) — no copies of the reported risk allele.
Source
Diversity and scale: Genetic architecture of 2068 traits in the VA Million Veteran Program
Verma A,
Huffman JE,
Rodriguez A,
Conery M,
Liu M,
Ho YL,
Kim Y,
Heise DA,
Guare L,
Panickan VA,
Garcon H,
Linares F
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Costa L,
Goethert I,
Tipton R,
Honerlaw J,
Davies L,
Whitbourne S,
Cohen J,
Posner DC,
Sangar R,
Murray M,
Wang X,
Dochtermann DR,
Devineni P,
Shi Y,
Nandi TN,
Assimes TL,
Brunette CA,
Carroll RJ,
Clifford R,
Duvall S,
Gelernter J,
Hung A,
Iyengar SK,
Joseph J,
Kember R,
Kranzler H,
Kripke CM,
Levey D,
Luoh SW,
Merritt VC,
Overstreet C,
Deak JD,
Grant SFA,
Polimanti R,
Roussos P,
Shakt G,
Sun YV,
Tsao N,
Venkatesh S,
Voloudakis G,
Justice A,
Begoli E,
Ramoni R,
Tourassi G,
Pyarajan S,
Tsao P,
O'Donnell CJ,
Muralidhar S,
Moser J,
Casas JP,
Bick AG,
Zhou W,
Cai T,
Voight BF,
Cho K,
Gaziano JM,
Madduri RK,
Damrauer S,
Liao KP
Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2024 · PMID 39024449 · open access
Questions about rs4978409
What is rs4978409?
rs4978409 is a single position in the genome, in or near the PALM2AKAP2 gene. Published research associates it with white blood cell count (wbc, minimum, inv-norm transformed). A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.
Does having rs4978409 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 rs4978409 come from?
GWAS Catalog, Science (New York, N.Y.) 2024, PMID:39024449. 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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