Sensitive

Prostate cancer

BSN · rs62262671

Where this position leads

Condition: Prostate Cancer

rs62262671 Condition: Prostate Cancer Prostate Cancer Condition rs62262671 rs62262671 BSN

What the study found

Who was studied 14,113 European ancestry cases, 194,140 European ancestry controls.

The effect The reported allele is G; the catalogue records no effect size ; p = 4 × 10−8.

Where it sits Chromosome 3, band 3p21.31 — in an intron of BSN.

What each result means

A/A No copy of the version the research linked to Prostate cancer. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.
A/G One copy of the version the research linked to Prostate cancer. That is a smaller link than two copies.
G/G Two copies of the version the research linked to Prostate cancer. That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.
Source

Questions about rs62262671

What is rs62262671?

rs62262671 is a single position in the genome, in or near the BSN gene. Published research associates it with prostate cancer. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

What conditions is rs62262671 linked to?

On MyGeneLog this position is linked to Prostate Cancer. The research behind each link, and its sources, are set out on that condition page.

Does having rs62262671 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 rs62262671 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Cancer research 2021, PMID:33293427. 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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