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Cutaneous melanoma or hair colour

AC008940.1 · rs7714232

What the study found

Who was studied 36,760 European ancestry cutaneous melanoma cases, 375,188 European ancestry controls, 352,662 European ancestry individuals.

The effect The reported allele is A; the catalogue records no effect size ; p = 3 × 10−22.

How common The A allele had a frequency of about 82% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 5, band 5q11.2 — between genes, 45.4 kb from C5orf67.

What each result means

A/A Two copies of the version the research linked to Cutaneous melanoma or hair colour. 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 Cutaneous melanoma or hair colour. That is a smaller link than two copies.
T/T No copy of the version the research linked to Cutaneous melanoma or hair colour. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.
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Questions about rs7714232

What is rs7714232?

rs7714232 is a single position in the genome, in or near the AC008940.1 gene. Published research associates it with cutaneous melanoma or hair colour. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

Does having rs7714232 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 rs7714232 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Nature genetics 2020, PMID:32341527. 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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