CAST · rs6232
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.
What the study found
Who was studied 694,649 European ancestry individuals.
The effect Each copy of the T allele shifted the measure 0.026 lower (95% confidence interval 0.018-0.034); p = 5 × 10−11.
Where it sits Chromosome 5, band 5q15 — a missense change in CAST.
What ClinVar records
Classification
Benign/Likely benign for Body mass index quantitative trait locus 12; criteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts (2 of 4 stars, 8 submitters), last evaluated 2026-02-04.
ClinVar record 14040 NM_000439.5(PCSK1):c.661A>G (p.Asn221Asp)
What this is ClinVar's aggregate record for this position (as of its 2026-10-19 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.
rs6232 is a single position in the genome, in or near the CAST gene. Published research associates it with body mass index (mtag). 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 2022, PMID:36376304. 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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Body mass index (MTAG) (rs6232). MyGeneLog™. https://www.mygenelog.com/variants/rs6232