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Smoking status (ever vs never smokers)

REV3L · rs465646

What the study found

Who was studied 336,066 British ancestry individuals.

The effect Each copy of the G allele carried 1.05 times the odds of Smoking status (ever vs never smokers) (95% confidence interval 1.04-1.07); p = 8 × 10−15.

How common The G allele had a frequency of about 16% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 6, band 6q21 — in the 3′ untranslated region of REV3L.

What each result means

A/A No copy of the version the research linked to Smoking status (ever vs never smokers). This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.
A/G One copy of the version the research linked to Smoking status (ever vs never smokers). That is a smaller link than two copies.
G/G Two copies of the version the research linked to Smoking status (ever vs never smokers). That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.
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Questions about rs465646

What is rs465646?

rs465646 is a single position in the genome, in or near the REV3L gene. Published research associates it with smoking status (ever vs never smokers). A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

Does having rs465646 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 rs465646 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Nature genetics 2020, PMID:32231276. 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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