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Skin colour saturation
ASIP · rs6059655
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
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What each result means
A/A
Published research associates this genotype (two copies of the reported risk allele) with a higher likelihood of Skin colour saturation compared to the general population.
A/G
Published research associates this genotype (one copy of the reported risk allele) with an intermediate association with Skin colour saturation.
G/G
Published research associates this genotype with typical/baseline likelihood of Skin colour saturation — no copies of the reported risk allele.
Source
Genetics of skin color variation in Europeans: genome-wide association studies with functional follow-up
Liu F,
Visser M,
Duffy DL,
Hysi PG,
Jacobs LC,
Lao O,
Zhong K,
Walsh S,
Chaitanya L,
Wollstein A,
Zhu G,
Montgomery GW
and 14 more — show all
Henders AK,
Mangino M,
Glass D,
Bataille V,
Sturm RA,
Rivadeneira F,
Hofman A,
van IJcken WF,
Uitterlinden AG,
Palstra RJ,
Spector TD,
Martin NG,
Nijsten TE,
Kayser M
Human genetics · 2015 · PMID 25963972 · open access
Questions about rs6059655
What is rs6059655?
rs6059655 is a single position in the genome, in or near the ASIP gene. Published research associates it with skin colour saturation. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.
Does having rs6059655 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 rs6059655 come from?
GWAS Catalog, Hum Genet 2015, PMID:25963972. 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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