rs142025399

This is a intron variant variant in the KRT8 gene.

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GWAS Catalog Trait Associations (1)

Genome-wide significant associations (p < 5×10⁻⁸) from the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog.

prostate carcinoma

Wang A et al. “Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants.” Nature Genetics 55(12):2065-2074 (2023)
Allele T
OR 1.65
p 2.0e-27
N 944,762
Large GWAS
multi-ancestry
Ishigaki K et al. “Large-scale genome-wide association study in a Japanese population identifies novel susceptibility loci across different diseases.” Nature Genetics 52(7):669-679 (2020)
Allele T
OR 1.60
p 2.0e-10
N 109,347
Large GWAS
East Asian
Sakaue S et al. “A cross-population atlas of genetic associations for 220 human phenotypes.” Nature Genetics 53(10):1415-1424 (2021)
Allele T
OR 0.55
p 2.0e-17
N 90,332
Large GWAS
East Asian

About KRT8

This gene is a member of the type II keratin family clustered on the long arm of chromosome 12. Type I and type II keratins heteropolymerize to form intermediate-sized filaments in the cytoplasm of epithelial cells. The product of this gene typically dimerizes with keratin 18 to form an intermediate filament in simple single-layered epithelial cells. This protein plays a role in maintaining cellular structural integrity and also functions in signal transduction and cellular differentiation. Mutations in this gene cause cryptogenic cirrhosis. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2012]

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Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.

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