Genetic variant
rs4909945
rs4909945 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 rs4909945 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.
We hold only the basic reference record for this variant: its ID and position. Many catalogued variants have never been linked to anything.
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 rs4909945, 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
- rs4909945
- Position
- chr11:10652192
Genome-wide association studies (20)
| Trait | Risk allele | OR / beta | P-value | Study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean platelet thrombocyte volume (UKB data field 30100) | C | β 0.028 | 7E-55 | PubMed |
| Mean platelet volume | C | β 0.029 | 3E-33 | PubMed |
| Migraine | C | OR 1.06 | 8E-22 | PubMed |
| Cholesterol to Total Lipids in Large HDL percentage | C | β 0.02 | 6E-19 | PubMed |
| Cholesteryl Esters to Total Lipids in Large HDL percentage | C | β 0.02 | 5E-17 | PubMed |
| Triglycerides to Total Lipids in Very Large HDL percentage | C | β 0.02 | 1E-16 | PubMed |
| Platelet count | T | β 0.023 | 4E-16 | PubMed |
| Triglycerides in small HDL | C | β 0.02 | 5E-16 | PubMed |
| Triglycerides to Total Lipids in Large HDL percentage | C | β 0.02 | 1E-15 | PubMed |
| Triglyceride levels | C | β 0.013 | 1E-13 | PubMed |
| Cholesterol to Total Lipids in Medium HDL percentage | C | β 0.02 | 1E-13 | PubMed |
| Diastolic blood pressure (UKB data field 4079) | C | β 0.015 | 3E-13 | PubMed |
| Pain (pleiotropy) | — | β 0.019 | 3E-13 | PubMed |
| Triglycerides to Total Lipids in Medium HDL percentage | C | β 0.02 | 5E-13 | PubMed |
| Free Cholesterol to Total Lipids in Medium LDL percentage | C | β 0.01 | 2E-12 | PubMed |
| Triglyceride to phosphoglyceride ratio | C | β 0.01 | 5E-12 | PubMed |
| Phospholipids to Total Lipids in Large VLDL percentage | C | β 0.01 | 1E-11 | PubMed |
| Free Cholesterol to Total Lipids in Large LDL percentage | C | β 0.01 | 1E-11 | PubMed |
| Polyunsaturated fatty acids to monounsaturated fatty acids ratio | C | β 0.01 | 2E-11 | PubMed |
| Triglycerides in medium HDL | C | β 0.01 | 4E-11 | PubMed |
Sources
- dbSNP: rs4909945 — the reference record
- ClinVar — clinical interpretations submitted by laboratories
- SNPedia — community-written summaries
- GWAS Catalog — association studies