Sensitive

Prostate cancer

PCAT1 · rs72725817

Where this position leads

Condition: Prostate Cancer

rs72725817 Condition: Prostate Cancer Prostate Cancer Condition rs72725817 rs72725817 PCAT1

What the study found

Who was studied 122,188 European ancestry cases, 604,640 European ancestry controls.

The effect Each copy of the T allele carried 1.27 times the odds of Prostate cancer (95% confidence interval 1.19-1.36); p = 5 × 10−12.

How common The T allele had a frequency of about 1% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 8, band 8q24.21 — in an intron of PCAT1.

What each result means

C/C No copy of the version the research linked to Prostate cancer. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.
C/T One copy of the version the research linked to Prostate cancer. That is a smaller link than two copies.
T/T 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 rs72725817

What is rs72725817?

rs72725817 is a single position in the genome, in or near the PCAT1 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 rs72725817 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 rs72725817 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 rs72725817 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Nature genetics 2023, PMID:37945903. 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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