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Blond vs. brown/black hair color

LHX2 · rs917783

Where this position leads

Condition: Hair Color

rs917783 Condition: Hair Color Hair Color Condition rs917783 rs917783 LHX2

What the study found

Who was studied 39,397 British ancestry blond hair individuals, 283,920 British ancestry brown or black hair individuals.

The effect The reported allele is C; the catalogue records no effect size ; p = 3 × 10−64.

How common The C allele had a frequency of about 45% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 9, band 9q33.3 — in an intron of LHX2.

What each result means

A/A No copy of the version the research linked to Blond vs. brown/black hair color. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.
A/C One copy of the version the research linked to Blond vs. brown/black hair color. That is a smaller link than two copies.
C/C Two copies of the version the research linked to Blond vs. brown/black hair color. That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.
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Questions about rs917783

What is rs917783?

rs917783 is a single position in the genome, in or near the LHX2 gene. Published research associates it with blond vs. brown/black hair color. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

What conditions is rs917783 linked to?

On MyGeneLog this position is linked to Hair Color. The research behind each link, and its sources, are set out on that condition page.

Does having rs917783 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 rs917783 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Nature communications 2018, PMID:30531825. 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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