rs7181536

This is a downstream gene variant variant in the USP8 gene.

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GWAS Catalog Trait Associations (1)

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

osteoarthritis, knee, total knee arthroplasty

Hatzikotoulas K et al. “Translational genomics of osteoarthritis in 1,962,069 individuals.” Nature 641(8065):1217-1224 (2025)

Allele C

OR 0.93

p 2.0e-13

N 1,006,624

Large GWAS

multi-ancestry

About USP8

This gene encodes a protein that belongs to the ubiquitin-specific processing protease family of proteins. The encoded protein is thought to regulate the morphology of the endosome by ubiquitination of proteins on this organelle and is involved in cargo sorting and membrane trafficking at the early endosome stage. This protein is required for the cell to enter the S phase of the cell cycle and also functions as a positive regulator in the Hedgehog signaling pathway in development. Pseudogenes of this gene are present on chromosomes 2 and 6. Alternate splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2013]

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Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.

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