Genetic variant

rs11065987

rs11065987 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 rs11065987 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 rs11065987, 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
rs11065987
Position
chr12:111634620

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Hemoglobin levels G β 0.055 6E-135 PubMed
Body mass index G β 0.013 6E-23 PubMed
Cholesterol, total G β 0.031 2E-16 PubMed
Coronary artery disease or ischemic stroke — — 4E-14 PubMed
Hematocrit G OR 0.17 1E-12 PubMed
Cholesterol, total G OR 0.96 7E-12 PubMed
Hemoglobin A β 0.06 1E-11 PubMed
LDL cholesterol G β 0.027 1E-11 PubMed
Body mass index A β 0.019 2E-11 PubMed
Omega-6 fatty acid levels G — 6E-11 PubMed
Tetralogy of Fallot G OR 1.34 8E-11 PubMed
Total cholesterol levels A β 0.028 1E-10 PubMed
Coronary artery disease or large artery stroke — — 3E-10 PubMed
Linoleic acid levels G — 5E-10 PubMed
Low density lipoprotein cholesterol levels A β 0.028 6E-10 PubMed
LDL cholesterol G OR 0.97 2E-9 PubMed
Body mass index A β 0.015 4E-9 PubMed
Hematocrit — — 1E-8 PubMed
Primary biliary cholangitis G OR 1.19 3E-8 PubMed
Asthma A OR 1.03 3E-8 PubMed

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