Sensitive

Spine osteoarthritis

SMAD3 · rs7163797

Where this position leads

Condition: Osteoarthritis

rs7163797 Condition: Osteoarthritis Osteoarthritis Condition rs7163797 rs7163797 SMAD3

What the study found

Who was studied 68,970 European ancestry cases, 733,825 European ancestry controls, 3,799 East Asian ancestry cases, 70,581 East Asian ancestry controls, 1,973 African or African American cases, 21,394 African or African American controls, 506 South Asian ancestry cases, 18,870 South Asian ancestry controls, 575 Hispanic cases, 3,490 Hispanic controls, 346 Admixed ancestry cases, 8,268 Admixed ancestry controls.

The effect Each copy of the A allele carried 0.96 times the odds of Spine osteoarthritis (95% confidence interval 0.950795971560304-0.97380498161668); p = 2 × 10−10.

How common The A allele had a frequency of about 47% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 15, band 15q22.33 — in an intron of SMAD3.

What each result means

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

Questions about rs7163797

What is rs7163797?

rs7163797 is a single position in the genome, in or near the SMAD3 gene. Published research associates it with spine osteoarthritis. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

What conditions is rs7163797 linked to?

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

Does having rs7163797 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 rs7163797 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Nature 2025, PMID:40205036. 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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