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Voice breaking timing, JHY marker

The age at which the voice breaks during puberty, as men recall it.

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Evidence · Replicated

What the research found

In the cited research, the T allele at rs7110373 was associated with later recalled voice breaking in the studied men.

CC
Earlier
CT
Middle
TT
Later
Slight effect

What the study found

In the study, each copy went with recalled age at voice breaking about 0.08 years higher on average.

Men of European ancestry: 23andMe research participants · 55,871 people · Table 1, rs7110373 row (11q24.1, BSX), age at voice breaking columns; N from the Table 1 column header (Age at VB, N=55,871)
Evidence
Genome-wide association with independent replication
Who was studied
Men of European ancestry (23andMe; replication in UK Biobank)

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1000 Genomes Project

How common each genotype is

How common each genotype is in the 1000 Genomes Project, by region
RegionCCEarlierCTMiddleTTLater
All regions2,504 people35%45%20%
Africa661 people25%46%29%
The Americas347 people47%37%16%
East Asia504 people43%43%14%
Europe503 people27%48%25%
South Asia489 people39%47%13%

Among the 2,504 people of the 1000 Genomes Project, in five world regions. These percentages describe groups of people, never anyone’s chance of having a trait.

rs7110373

The marker

Gene or region
JHY / BSX region
Marker
rs7110373
Location
Chromosome 11 · GRCh37 122,813,224 · GRCh38 122,942,516
Letters studied
C and T, with T as the studied allele

A DNA Traits report reads this marker in your raw DNA file and shows which of the three genotypes is yours, with how common it is. It counts the copies of the studied allele; it does not measure the trait itself.

Marker
JHY / BSX region · rs7110373
Location
Chromosome 11 · GRCh37 122,813,224 · GRCh38 122,942,516
Studied allele
T
Published statistic
beta +0.08 years per T allele (SE 0.01), P 1.4e-13, N 55,871 (Day 2015 Table 1, alleles T/C/0.51). UK Biobank replication at proxy rs7114175 (r2 1.00 CEU and GBR; T with T): late vs average +0.005022 (SE 0.000794), P 2.2e-10; early -0.003179, P 5.6e-6 (Hollis 2020 Supplementary Data 1) (Table 1, rs7110373 row (11q24.1, BSX), age at voice breaking columns; N from the Table 1 column header (Age at VB, N=55,871))
1000 Genomes Project phase 3, people with 0, 1 and 2 copies
All regions 867 / 1127 / 510 · Africa 164 / 307 / 190 · The Americas 162 / 130 / 55 · East Asia 215 / 217 / 72 · Europe 134 / 242 / 127 · South Asia 192 / 231 / 66
Limits

What it cannot tell you

Studied in men of European ancestry who recalled, as adults, the age their voice broke. A single marker, one of dozens linked to puberty timing in men.

Shared genetic aetiology of puberty timing between sexes and with health-related outcomes (Day et al., 2015)
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