FER1L4 · rs188878
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What the study found
Who was studied 239,268 European ancestry individuals.
The effect The reported allele is C; the catalogue records no effect size ; p = 1 × 10−20.
Where it sits Chromosome 20, band 20q11.22 — in an intron of FER1L4.
rs188878 is a single position in the genome, in or near the FER1L4 gene. Published research associates it with polyunsaturated fatty acid levels. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.
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.
GWAS Catalog, HGG advances 2025, PMID:40545721. 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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Polyunsaturated fatty acid levels (rs188878). MyGeneLog™. https://www.mygenelog.com/variants/rs188878