ATXN1 · rs68082256
Where this position leads
Condition: Epilepsy
What the study found
Who was studied 3,708 European ancestry cases, 61 African American cases, 24,218 European ancestry controls, 2,584 African American controls.
The effect Each copy of the A allele shifted the measure 6.02 lower; p = 2 × 10−9.
How common The A allele had a frequency of about 20% in the people studied.
Where it sits Chromosome 6, band 6p22.3 — between genes, 130.7 kb from STMND1.
rs68082256 is a single position in the genome, in or near the ATXN1 gene. Published research associates it with generalized epilepsy. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.
On MyGeneLog this position is linked to Epilepsy. The research behind each link, and its sources, are set out on that condition page.
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, Nat Commun 2018, PMID:30531953. 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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