Genetic variant
rs3740688
rs3740688 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 11. 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 rs3740688 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.
Alzheimer's disease polygenic hazard score
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 rs3740688, 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?
- Find out whether you carry it. Reading about a variant says nothing about you until you know your genotype.
- Put it in context. Add your blood results, so the variant can be read against what your body is doing.
- Ask questions. Dr. Hemsworth, our AI assistant, can explain this variant and your results in plain English.
- 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
- rs3740688
- Position
- chr11:47358789
Genome-wide association studies (17)
| Trait | Risk allele | OR / beta | P-value | Study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albumin levels | T | β 0.022 | 2E-39 | PubMed |
| Albumin (maximum, inv-norm transformed) | G | β 0.029 | 4E-30 | PubMed |
| Albumin (mean, inv-norm transformed) | G | β 0.026 | 4E-24 | PubMed |
| Albumin (maximum, inv-norm transformed) | G | β 0.023 | 1E-19 | PubMed |
| Total protein levels (UKB data field 30860) | T | β 0.017 | 4E-18 | PubMed |
| Serum total protein levels | T | β 0.018 | 2E-17 | PubMed |
| Apolipoprotein A1 levels | G | β 0.016 | 2E-15 | PubMed |
| LGALS3BP protein levels | T | β 0.042 | 2E-15 | PubMed |
| Albumin levels | G | β 0.031 | 4E-14 | PubMed |
| Albumin levels (UKB data field 23479) | G | β 0.034 | 3E-13 | PubMed |
| Albumin (minimum, inv-norm transformed) | G | β 0.017 | 2E-12 | PubMed |
| Albumin levels | T | β 0.08 | 5E-10 | PubMed |
| Albumin levels | T | β 0.08 | 7E-10 | PubMed |
| Late-onset Alzheimer's disease | — | — | 9E-9 | PubMed |
| Low-density lipoprotein levels (MTAG) | T | β 0.008 | 2E-8 | PubMed |
| Worry | G | β 0.013 | 2E-8 | PubMed |
| Alzheimer's disease or family history of Alzheimer's disease | — | — | 5E-8 | PubMed |
Sources
- dbSNP: rs3740688 — the reference record
- ClinVar — clinical interpretations submitted by laboratories
- SNPedia — community-written summaries
- GWAS Catalog — association studies