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Osteoarthritis of the hip or knee

FTO · rs9940278

Where this position leads

Condition: Osteoarthritis

rs9940278 Condition: Osteoarthritis Osteoarthritis Condition rs9940278 rs9940278 FTO

What the study found

Who was studied 88,842 European ancestry cases, 397,208 European ancestry controls, 899 Japanese ancestry cases, 3,396 Japanese ancestry controls.

The effect Each copy of the T allele carried 1.06 times the odds of Osteoarthritis of the hip or knee (95% confidence interval 1.042627761-1.067859076); p = 1 × 10−18.

How common The T allele had a frequency of about 43% 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 Osteoarthritis of the hip or knee. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.
C/T One copy of the version the research linked to Osteoarthritis of the hip or knee. That is a smaller link than two copies.
T/T Two copies of the version the research linked to Osteoarthritis of the hip or knee. That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.
Source
Deciphering osteoarthritis genetics across 826,690 individuals from 9 populations
Boer CG, Hatzikotoulas K, Southam L, Stefánsdóttir L, Zhang Y, Coutinho de Almeida R, Wu TT, Zheng J, Hartley A, Teder-Laving M, Skogholt AH, Terao C
and 50 more — show all
Zengini E, Alexiadis G, Barysenka A, Bjornsdottir G, Gabrielsen ME, Gilly A, Ingvarsson T, Johnsen MB, Jonsson H, Kloppenburg M, Luetge A, Lund SH, Mägi R, Mangino M, Nelissen RRGHH, Shivakumar M, Steinberg J, Takuwa H, Thomas LF, Tuerlings M, Babis GC, Cheung JPY, Kang JH, Kraft P, Lietman SA, Samartzis D, Slagboom PE, Stefansson K, Thorsteinsdottir U, Tobias JH, Uitterlinden AG, Winsvold B, Zwart JA, Davey Smith G, Sham PC, Thorleifsson G, Gaunt TR, Morris AP, Valdes AM, Tsezou A, Cheah KSE, Ikegawa S, Hveem K, Esko T, Wilkinson JM, Meulenbelt I, Lee MTM, van Meurs JBJ, Styrkársdóttir U, Zeggini E
arcOGEN Consortium · HUNT All-In Pain · ARGO Consortium · Regeneron Genetics Center
Cell · 2021 · PMID 34450027 · open access

Questions about rs9940278

What is rs9940278?

rs9940278 is a single position in the genome, in or near the FTO gene. Published research associates it with osteoarthritis of the hip or knee. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

What conditions is rs9940278 linked to?

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

Does having rs9940278 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 rs9940278 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Cell 2021, PMID:34450027. 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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