rs17782313
rs17782313 is a common marker about 188,000 DNA letters away from MC4R. It does not change the MC4R protein. Large studies link each C copy to a small increase in average body weight, but the biological mechanism is not known. Rare damaging mutations inside MC4R cause a different and much more serious condition; those findings do not apply to this common marker.
Traits rs17782313 reads
Gene
Reference databases
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