Genetic variant

rs10876550

rs10876550 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 12. 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 rs10876550 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 rs10876550, 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
rs10876550
Position
chr12:54318524

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Platelet count A — 1E-194 PubMed
Platelet count A β 0.052 2E-177 PubMed
Platelet count (UKB data field 30080) A β 0.05 7E-174 PubMed
Platelet count A β 0.043 2E-148 PubMed
Platelet distribution width (UKB data field 30110) A β 0.044 5E-128 PubMed
Platelet count A β 0.046 5E-121 PubMed
CCL28 protein levels A OR 0.11 9E-102 PubMed
Platelet count G — 1E-78 PubMed
Platelet count A β 0.058 5E-74 PubMed
Mean platelet volume A β 0.062 3E-57 PubMed
Immature platelet count A OR 0.11 3E-49 PubMed
RBPMS2 protein levels A β 0.066 2E-28 PubMed
Blood cell traits latent factor 5 (platelet) — — 2E-25 PubMed
APRT protein levels A β 0.061 6E-25 PubMed
FADD protein levels A β 0.062 1E-24 PubMed
CASP8 protein levels A β 0.059 1E-23 PubMed
LBR protein levels A β 0.055 2E-21 PubMed
FKBP4 protein levels A β 0.057 7E-21 PubMed
COMMD1 protein levels A β 0.056 1E-20 PubMed
DNMBP protein levels A β 0.055 4E-20 PubMed

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