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Sensitive

Skin cancer

near GACAT3 · rs79643549

Where this position leads

Condition: Sun Sensitivity, Freckling and Skin Cancer Risk

rs79643549 Condition: Sun Sensitivity, Freckling and Skin Cancer Risk Sun Sensitivity, Freckling and Skin… Condition rs79643549 rs79643549 near GACAT3

What the study found

Who was studied 83,801 European ancestry cases, 347,397 European ancestry controls.

The effect Each copy of the T allele shifted the measure 0.0743 higher (95% confidence interval 0.054-0.095); p = 4 × 10−16.

How common The T allele had a frequency of about 91% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 2, band 2p24.3 — between genes, 199.3 kb from GACAT3.

What each result means

A/A No copy of the version the research linked to Skin cancer. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.
A/T One copy of the version the research linked to Skin cancer. That is a smaller link than two copies.
T/T Two copies of the version the research linked to Skin cancer. That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.
Source
Diversity and scale: Genetic architecture of 2068 traits in the VA Million Veteran Program
Verma A, Huffman JE, Rodriguez A, Conery M, Liu M, Ho YL, Kim Y, Heise DA, Guare L, Panickan VA, Garcon H, Linares F
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Costa L, Goethert I, Tipton R, Honerlaw J, Davies L, Whitbourne S, Cohen J, Posner DC, Sangar R, Murray M, Wang X, Dochtermann DR, Devineni P, Shi Y, Nandi TN, Assimes TL, Brunette CA, Carroll RJ, Clifford R, Duvall S, Gelernter J, Hung A, Iyengar SK, Joseph J, Kember R, Kranzler H, Kripke CM, Levey D, Luoh SW, Merritt VC, Overstreet C, Deak JD, Grant SFA, Polimanti R, Roussos P, Shakt G, Sun YV, Tsao N, Venkatesh S, Voloudakis G, Justice A, Begoli E, Ramoni R, Tourassi G, Pyarajan S, Tsao P, O'Donnell CJ, Muralidhar S, Moser J, Casas JP, Bick AG, Zhou W, Cai T, Voight BF, Cho K, Gaziano JM, Madduri RK, Damrauer S, Liao KP
Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2024 · PMID 39024449 · open access

Questions about rs79643549

What is rs79643549?

rs79643549 is a single position in the genome, in or near the near GACAT3 gene. Published research associates it with skin 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 rs79643549 linked to?

On MyGeneLog this position is linked to Sun Sensitivity, Freckling and Skin Cancer Risk. The research behind each link, and its sources, are set out on that condition page.

Does having rs79643549 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 rs79643549 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Science (New York, N.Y.) 2024, PMID:39024449. 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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