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Body mass index

FTO · rs9922708

Where this position leads

Conditions: Childhood Body Mass Index, Obesity and Body Weight

What the study found

Who was studied 56,161 Hispanic or Latin American individuals; replicated in 10,538 Hispanic or Latin American individuals.

The effect Each copy of the T allele shifted the measure 0.0733 higher (95% confidence interval 0.06-0.086); p = 6 × 10⁻²⁹.

How common The T allele had a frequency of about 30% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 16, band 16q12.2 — in an intron of FTO.

What each result means

C/C No copy of the version the research linked to Body mass index. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.

C/T One copy of the version the research linked to Body mass index. That is a smaller link than two copies.

T/T Two copies of the version the research linked to Body mass index. That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.

Source

Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits-The Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium

Fernández-Rhodes L, Graff M, Buchanan VL, Justice AE, Highland HM, Guo X, Zhu W, Chen HH, Young KL, Adhikari K, Palmer ND, Below JE

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HGG advances · 2022 · PMID 35399580 · open access

Questions about rs9922708

What is rs9922708?

rs9922708 is a single position in the genome, in or near the FTO 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.

What conditions is rs9922708 linked to?

On MyGeneLog this position is linked to Childhood Body Mass Index, Obesity and Body Weight. The research behind each link, and its sources, are set out on that condition page.

Does having rs9922708 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 rs9922708 come from?

GWAS Catalog, HGG advances 2022, PMID:35399580. 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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