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Smoking initiation

TEX41 · rs11694518

What the study found

Who was studied 324,851 European ancestry individuals, 21,962 South Asian ancestry individuals; replicated in up to 275,596 European ancestry individuals.

The effect The reported allele is T; the catalogue records no effect size ; p = 3 × 10−9.

How common The T allele had a frequency of about 30% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 2, band 2q22.3 — between genes, 147.7 kb from RPL6P5.

What each result means

C/C No copy of the version the research linked to Smoking initiation. This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.
C/T One copy of the version the research linked to Smoking initiation. That is a smaller link than two copies.
T/T Two copies of the version the research linked to Smoking initiation. That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.
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Questions about rs11694518

What is rs11694518?

rs11694518 is a single position in the genome, in or near the TEX41 gene. Published research associates it with smoking initiation. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

Does having rs11694518 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 rs11694518 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Molecular psychiatry 2020, PMID:30617275. 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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