HSD17B2 · rs79488654
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What the study found
Who was studied 194,453 European ancestry men.
The effect Each copy of the G allele shifted the measure 0.235 higher (95% confidence interval 0.15-0.32); p = 8 × 10−9.
How common The G allele had a frequency of about 100% in the people studied.
Where it sits Chromosome 16, band 16q23.3 — a missense change in HSD17B2-AS1.
rs79488654 is a single position in the genome, in or near the HSD17B2 gene. Published research associates it with total testosterone levels. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.
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, Nature medicine 2020, PMID:32042192. 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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Total testosterone levels (rs79488654). MyGeneLog™. https://www.mygenelog.com/variants/rs79488654