Genetic variant

rs10761785

rs10761785 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 10. 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 rs10761785 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 rs10761785, 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
rs10761785
Position
chr10:63559006

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Height G β 0.014 3E-105 PubMed
Free cholesterol in large HDL T β 0.02 2E-22 PubMed
Phospholipids in very large HDL T β 0.02 6E-21 PubMed
Body mass index T β 0.014 5E-19 PubMed
High-density lipoprotein levels T β 0.015 7E-19 PubMed
Concentration of very large HDL particles T β 0.02 2E-18 PubMed
Waist-hip ratio T β 0.015 6E-18 PubMed
Concentration of large HDL particles T β 0.01 6E-18 PubMed
Waist-hip ratio T β 0.015 6E-18 PubMed
Phospholipids in large HDL T β 0.01 3E-17 PubMed
SMAD3 protein levels T β 0.049 3E-17 PubMed
Body mass index T β 0.013 3E-16 PubMed
Body mass index T β 0.013 3E-16 PubMed
Average diameter for HDL particles T β 0.01 5E-16 PubMed
white blood cell count (WBC, maximum, inv-norm transformed) G β 0.022 3E-15 PubMed
RAB2B protein levels T β 0.048 5E-15 PubMed
Body mass index (MTAG) T β 0.012 2E-14 PubMed
Red blood cell count — — 4E-14 PubMed
diastolic blood pressure (DBP, maximum, inv-normal transformed) G β 0.019 5E-14 PubMed
Body mass index G β 0.013 5E-14 PubMed

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