near KIT · rs6831020
Where this position leads
Condition: Childhood Body Mass Index
What the study found
Who was studied 650,000 European ancestry individuals.
The effect Each copy of the C allele shifted the measure 0.0142 higher (95% confidence interval 0.01-0.018); p = 2 × 10−12.
How common The C allele had a frequency of about 71% in the people studied.
Where it sits Chromosome 4, band 4q12 — between genes, 23.2 kb from KIT.
rs6831020 is a single position in the genome, in or near the near KIT gene. Published research associates it with body mass index. 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 Childhood Body Mass Index. 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, Nature genetics 2024, PMID:39375568. 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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