rs61735792

This variant is located in the TMPRSS2 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 A
OR 1.24
p 1.0e-20
N 726,828
Large GWAS
European
Conti DV et al. “Trans-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of prostate cancer identifies new susceptibility loci and informs genetic risk prediction.” Nature Genetics 53(1):65-75 (2021)
Allele A
OR 1.26
p 8.0e-15
N 234,253
Meta-analysisLarge GWAS
multi-ancestry
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ClinVar annotation

Benign★☆☆☆
1 submitter
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About TMPRSS2

This gene encodes a protein that belongs to the serine protease family. The encoded protein contains a type II transmembrane domain, a receptor class A domain, a scavenger receptor cysteine-rich domain and a protease domain. Serine proteases are known to be involved in many physiological and pathological processes. This gene was demonstrated to be up-regulated by androgenic hormones in prostate cancer cells and down-regulated in androgen-independent prostate cancer tissue. The protease domain of this protein is thought to be cleaved and secreted into cell media after autocleavage. This protein also facilitates entry of viruses into host cells by proteolytically cleaving and activating viral envelope glycoproteins. Viruses found to use this protein for cell entry include Influenza virus and the human coronaviruses HCoV-229E, MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 virus). Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Apr 2020]

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Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.

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