BMAL1 · rs7938308
Where this position leads
Condition: Childhood Body Mass Index
What the study found
Who was studied 315,347 European ancestry individuals, 8,322 Hispanic/Latino individuals, 7,290 East Asian ancestry individuals, 3,069 African American individuals, 459 South Asian ancestry individuals; replicated in 431,743 European ancestry individuals, 9,275 South Asian ancestry individuals, 8,261 African British individuals, 1,822 East Asian ancestry individuals, 7,620 individuals.
The effect Each copy of the C allele shifted the measure 0.014 lower; p = 8 × 10−15.
Where it sits Chromosome 11, band 11p15.3 — in an intron of BMAL1.
rs7938308 is a single position in the genome, in or near the BMAL1 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, Genetics 2018, PMID:30108127. 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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