RTEL1 · rs6062302
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What the study found
Who was studied 1,783 Northern European ancestry cases, 7,435 Northern European ancestry controls; replicated in up to 1,490 European ancestry cases, up to 1,723 European ancestry controls.
The effect Each copy of the C allele carried 1.43 times the odds of Glioblastoma (95% confidence interval 1.3-1.56); p = 1 × 10−13.
Where it sits Chromosome 20, band 20q13.33 — a synonymous change in RTEL1.
What ClinVar records
Classification
Benign/Likely benign for Dyskeratosis congenita, Dyskeratosis congenita, autosomal recessive 5, Pulmonary fibrosis and/or bone marrow failure, Telomere-related, 3; criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts (2 of 4 stars, 14 submitters), last evaluated 2026-02-04.
ClinVar record 403398 NM_001283009.2(RTEL1):c.1992T>C (p.Asp664=)
What this is ClinVar's aggregate record for this position (as of its 2026-10-12 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.
rs6062302 is a single position in the genome, in or near the RTEL1 gene. Published research associates it with glioblastoma. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.
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 2015, PMID:26424050. 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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