MEPE · rs899040
Where this position leads
Condition: Medication Use as a Genetic Trait
What the study found
Who was studied 7,870 European ancestry cases, 207,798 European ancestry controls.
The effect Each copy of the T allele shifted the measure 0.0964 lower (95% confidence interval 0.063-0.129); p = 1 × 10−8.
How common The T allele had a frequency of about 34% in the people studied.
Where it sits Chromosome 4, band 4q22.1 — between genes, 7.2 kb from MEPE.
rs899040 is a single position in the genome, in or near the MEPE gene. Published research associates it with medication use (drugs affecting bone structure and mineralization). 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 Medication Use as a Genetic Trait. 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, Nat Commun 2019, PMID:31015401. 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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