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Age-related hearing impairment

MPZL2 · rs74543584

What the study found

Who was studied 121,934 European ancestry cases, 591,699 European ancestry controls.

The effect Each copy of the A allele carried 4.79 times the odds of Age-related hearing impairment; p = 1 × 10−8.

How common The A allele had a frequency of about 83% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 11, band 11q23.3 — a missense change in MPZL2.

What ClinVar records

Classification Conflicting classifications of pathogenicity for MPZL2-related disorder, Hearing loss, autosomal recessive 111, Clear cell carcinoma of kidney, Colon adenocarcinoma; criteria provided, conflicting classifications (1 of 4 stars, 6 submitters), last evaluated 2026-01-01. ClinVar record 2578670 NM_005797.4(MPZL2):c.278A>T (p.Asp93Val)

What this is ClinVar's aggregate record for this position (as of its 2026-10-12 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.

What each result means

A/A Two copies of the version the research linked to Age-related hearing impairment. That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.
A/T One copy of the version the research linked to Age-related hearing impairment. That is a smaller link than two copies.
T/T No copy of the version the research linked to Age-related hearing impairment. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.
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Questions about rs74543584

What is rs74543584?

rs74543584 is a single position in the genome, in or near the MPZL2 gene. Published research associates it with age-related hearing impairment. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

Does having rs74543584 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 rs74543584 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Communications biology 2021, PMID:34108613. 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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