Genetic variant
rs12205331
rs12205331 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 6. 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 rs12205331 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 rs12205331, 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?
- Find out whether you carry it. Reading about a variant says nothing about you until you know your genotype.
- Put it in context. Add your blood results, so the variant can be read against what your body is doing.
- Ask questions. Dr. Hemsworth, our AI assistant, can explain this variant and your results in plain English.
- 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
- rs12205331
- Position
- chr6:34930678
Genome-wide association studies (9)
| Trait | Risk allele | OR / beta | P-value | Study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vaginal microbiome MetaCyc pathway (P221-PWY|octane oxidation) | T | OR 1.65 | 3E-11 | PubMed |
| Vaginal microbiome MetaCyc pathway (PWY-5180|toluene degradation I (aerobic) (via o-cresol)) | T | OR 1.54 | 1E-10 | PubMed |
| Vaginal microbiome MetaCyc pathway (PWY-5182|toluene degradation II (aerobic) (via 4-methylcatechol)) | T | OR 1.4 | 2E-8 | PubMed |
| Vaginal microbiome MetaCyc pathway (PWY-6507|4-deoxy-L-threo-hex-4-enopyranuronate degradation) | T | OR 1.51 | 2E-7 | PubMed |
| Vaginal microbiome MetaCyc pathway (PWY-5415|catechol degradation I (meta-cleavage pathway)) | T | OR 1.28 | 3E-7 | PubMed |
| Vaginal microbiome relative abundance (p_Proteobacteria) | T | OR 1.36 | 4E-6 | PubMed |
| Coronary artery disease | — | OR 1.08 | 6E-6 | PubMed |
| Vaginal microbiome MetaCyc pathway (PWY-7094|fatty acid salvage) | T | OR 1.36 | 8E-6 | PubMed |
| Vaginal microbiome MetaCyc pathway (FAO-PWY|fatty acid β-oxidation I) | T | OR 1.41 | 1E-5 | PubMed |
Sources
- dbSNP: rs12205331 — the reference record
- ClinVar — clinical interpretations submitted by laboratories
- SNPedia — community-written summaries
- GWAS Catalog — association studies