Markers / Gene
APOA5
One position in this gene is readable from a home DNA test.
Triglycerides, and how sharply they respond to diet
rs662799 · chr11:116,663,707 · A/G · evidence: established
APOA5 controls how fast triglyceride-rich particles are cleared from blood. The variant version clears them more slowly, and it is around three times more common in East Asian than European populations, which is part of why triglyceride patterns differ between them.
| If you carry | What it means |
|---|---|
| No copies | You have the faster-clearing version on both copies |
| One copy | You carry one slower-clearing copy |
| Two copies | You have the slower-clearing version on both copies |
| Ancestry group | G (the effect version) | |
|---|---|---|
| African | 11.6% | |
| American | 14.7% | |
| East Asian | 28.8% | |
| European | 8.3% | |
| South Asian | 19.1% |
1000 Genomes Project phase 3, via Ensembl, retrieved 2026-09-23. These groupings are coarse and flatten a great deal of internal diversity, particularly within Africa. A variant being common somewhere tells you where a piece of your ancestry probably comes from, and nothing else.
Where this gene fits
If you have taken a home DNA test, these positions are already in your file.
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