Genetic variant

rs3732359

rs3732359 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 3. Carrying it does not, on its own, mean you have or will develop any condition.

What is this?

Your DNA is a long sequence of four letters. At a few million positions, people commonly differ by a single letter; each of those positions is called a SNP (“snip”), and rs3732359 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.

Identification of polymorphisms in the 3'-untranslated region of the human pregnane X receptor (PXR) gene associated with variability in cytochrome P450 3A (CYP3A) metabolism

From SNPedia

Why might it matter?

ClinVar holds no clinical classification for this variant. That is the usual case: most catalogued variants have no known effect on health.

Do I have this variant?

If you have taken a consumer DNA test (23andMe, AncestryDNA and similar), you can download its raw data file and check. Create a free account, upload the file, and this page will show the letters you carry at rs3732359, if your test read this position.

Connect this with your blood results

A gene is a fixed instruction; a blood test shows what your body is doing now. CheckMyBloods reads the two side by side, so a variant can be set against the markers it could plausibly affect.

Blood markers do not diagnose a genetic condition, and a variant does not explain a blood result on its own. Together, with symptoms and family history, they give a clinician context.

What should I do next?

  1. Find out whether you carry it. Reading about a variant says nothing about you until you know your genotype.
  2. Put it in context. Add your blood results, so the variant can be read against what your body is doing.
  3. Ask questions. Dr. Hemsworth, our AI assistant, can explain this variant and your results in plain English.
  4. Take anything that worries you to a professional. A GP or genetic counsellor can order a confirmatory test and interpret it with your history.

This page is general information drawn from public research databases. It cannot diagnose anything, and it is not a substitute for advice from a doctor or genetic counsellor who knows your history.

Technical details

dbSNP ID
rs3732359
Position
chr3:119817582

Genome-wide association studies (15)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Total cholesterol levels A β 0.021 9E-35 PubMed
Total cholesterol levels A β 0.02 6E-26 PubMed
Low-density lipoprotein levels A β 0.017 9E-22 PubMed
Low-density lipoprotein levels (MTAG) A β 0.014 2E-17 PubMed
Low density lipoprotein cholesterol levels — — 6E-17 PubMed
Low density lipoprotein cholesterol levels A β 0.015 6E-15 PubMed
Weight A β 0.014 5E-14 PubMed
Body mass index A β 0.012 2E-13 PubMed
Non-HDL cholesterol levels — — 8E-13 PubMed
LDL cholesterol levels G β 0.017 5E-12 PubMed
Body mass index A β 0.014 1E-11 PubMed
Non-HDL cholesterol levels G β 0.015 2E-11 PubMed
Omega-6 fatty acids levels A β 0.02 1E-10 PubMed
Total lipid levels in lipoprotein particles A β 0.02 1E-10 PubMed
Body mass index A β 0.016 2E-8 PubMed

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