rs738409(G;G)

Higher odds of alcoholic liver disease, increased liver fat

Magnitude
3.1Important
Repute
Bad
Frequency
10%Average of 4 populations
On SNPedia
rs738409(C;C)Minus strand
Gene
PNPLA3

Frequency

Share of people with G;G in each HapMap population.

  • Japanese (Tokyo)23%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)13%
  • European ancestry (Utah)3%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)2%

Other genotypes of rs738409

  1. C;GBadincreased liver fat, odds of alcoholic liver diseaseWorth knowing · 2.037% of people
  2. C;CGoodmost common genotype; slightly less damage from alcoholWorth knowing · 2.153% of people

All about rs738409

Notes

From SNPedia

Alcohol seems to be 3x more damaging to your liver than typical. 5x higher risk for developing fatty liver, and 6x risk of fibrosis. news

Source and license

Adapted from rs738409(C;C) on SNPedia, using a snapshot taken October 16, 2026. SNPedia content is shared under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US, and this page is shared under the same license.

SNPedia is a community-edited wiki. Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice. Magnitude is a community rating of how interesting a genotype is, not a risk score.