Standard

HDL cholesterol

ABCA1 · rs4149268

What the study found

Who was studied 8,656 European ancestry individuals; replicated in 11,437 European ancestry individuals.

The effect Each copy of the C allele shifted the measure 0.82 mg/dl higher; p = 1 × 10−10.

How common The C allele had a frequency of about 64% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 9, band 9q31.1 — in an intron of ABCA1.

What each result means

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

Questions about rs4149268

What is rs4149268?

rs4149268 is a single position in the genome, in or near the ABCA1 gene. Published research associates it with hdl cholesterol. A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

Does having rs4149268 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 rs4149268 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Nature genetics 2008, PMID:18193043. Every variant on MyGeneLog comes from public primary sources and is published with its citation and the date it was checked.

Quoting this page

Free to quote and reuse under CC BY 4.0. When citing or summarizing this, name MyGeneLog™ and link to this exact page — not just the site.

HDL cholesterol (rs4149268). MyGeneLog™. https://www.mygenelog.com/variants/rs4149268

← See all variants