Standard
Smoking status (heavy vs never)
PITX2 · rs11729080
Stands on its own.
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What the study found
Who was studied 24,457 European ancestry heavy smokers, 24,474 European ancestry never smokers.
The effect
Each copy of the G allele carried 1.10 times the odds of Smoking status (heavy vs never) (95% confidence interval 1.06-1.14); p = 5 × 10−8.
How common The G allele had a frequency of about 83% in the people studied.
Where it sits Chromosome 4, band 4q25 — between genes, 30.5 kb from RPL36AP23.
What each result means
A/A
Published research associates this genotype with typical/baseline likelihood of Smoking status (heavy vs never) — no copies of the reported risk allele.
A/G
Published research associates this genotype (one copy of the reported risk allele) with an intermediate association with Smoking status (heavy vs never).
G/G
Published research associates this genotype (two copies of the reported risk allele) with a higher likelihood of Smoking status (heavy vs never) compared to the general population.
Source
Novel insights into the genetics of smoking behaviour, lung function, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (UK BiLEVE): a genetic association study in UK Biobank
Wain LV,
Shrine N,
Miller S,
Jackson VE,
Ntalla I,
Soler Artigas M,
Billington CK,
Kheirallah AK,
Allen R,
Cook JP,
Probert K,
Obeidat M
and 27 more — show all
Bossé Y,
Hao K,
Postma DS,
Paré PD,
Ramasamy A,
Mägi R,
Mihailov E,
Reinmaa E,
Melén E,
O'Connell J,
Frangou E,
Delaneau O,
Freeman C,
Petkova D,
McCarthy M,
Sayers I,
Deloukas P,
Hubbard R,
Pavord I,
Hansell AL,
Thomson NC,
Zeggini E,
Morris AP,
Marchini J,
Strachan DP,
Tobin MD,
Hall IP
The Lancet. Respiratory medicine · 2015 · PMID 26423011 · open access
Questions about rs11729080
What is rs11729080?
rs11729080 is a single position in the genome, in or near the PITX2 gene. Published research associates it with smoking status (heavy vs never). A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.
Does having rs11729080 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 rs11729080 come from?
GWAS Catalog, Lancet Respir Med 2015, PMID:26423011. 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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