rs6879260

This variant is located in the GFPT2 gene.

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GWAS Catalog Trait Associations (1)

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

body height

Lango Allen H et al. “Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height.” Nature 467(7317):832-8 (2010)

Allele T

OR —

β 0.022

p 2.0e-9

N 133,653

Large GWAS

European

About GFPT2

Enables glutamine-fructose-6-phosphate transaminase (isomerizing) activity. Involved in UDP-N-acetylglucosamine biosynthetic process and fructose 6-phosphate metabolic process. Predicted to be located in cytosol. Implicated in type 2 diabetes mellitus. [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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