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Age of smoking initiation (MTAG)

near ELOVL3 · rs11593898

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What the study found

Who was studied up to 931,815 European ancestry individuals.

The effect Each copy of the C allele shifted the measure 0.0114 lower (95% confidence interval 0.008-0.0147); p = 4 × 10⁻¹¹.

How common The C allele had a frequency of about 24% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 10, band 10q24.32 — between genes, 27.4 kb from ELOVL3.

What each result means

C/C Published research associates this genotype (two copies of the reported risk allele) with a higher likelihood of Age of smoking initiation (MTAG) compared to the general population.

C/T Published research associates this genotype (one copy of the reported risk allele) with an intermediate association with Age of smoking initiation (MTAG).

T/T Published research associates this genotype with typical/baseline likelihood of Age of smoking initiation (MTAG) — no copies of the reported risk allele.

Source

Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use

Liu M, Jiang Y, Wedow R, Li Y, Brazel DM, Chen F, Datta G, Davila-Velderrain J, McGuire D, Tian C, Zhan X, Choquet H

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23andMe Research Team · HUNT All-In Psychiatry

Nature genetics · 2019 · PMID 30643251 · open access

Questions about rs11593898

What is rs11593898?

rs11593898 is a single position in the genome, in or near the near ELOVL3 gene. Published research associates it with age of smoking initiation (mtag). A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

Does having rs11593898 mean I will get this?

No. Common variants like this one move a probability slightly and, on their own, rarely decide anything about one person. Nothing on this page is a diagnosis, and health decisions should be made with a clinician who can see your whole picture.

Where does the information about rs11593898 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Nature genetics 2019, PMID:30643251. Every variant on MyGeneLog comes from public primary sources and is published with its citation and the date it was checked.

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