rs16972065

This is a regulatory region variant variant in the TMC5 gene.

GWAS Catalog Trait Associations (1)

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

body mass index

Koskeridis F et al. Pleiotropic genetic architecture and novel loci for C-reactive protein levels. Nature Communications 13(1):6939 (2022)
Allele T
OR 0.02
p 2.0e-9
N 694,649
Large GWAS
European
Huang J et al. Genomics and phenomics of body mass index reveals a complex disease network. Nature Communications 13(1):7973 (2022)
Allele T
OR 0.02
p 6.0e-9
N 1,122,049
Large GWAS
European

About TMC5

Predicted to enable mechanosensitive monoatomic ion channel activity. Predicted to be involved in monoatomic ion transmembrane transport. Located in extracellular exosome. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

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Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.

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