Genetic variant

rs1270942

rs1270942 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 rs1270942 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.

The Major Histocompatibility Complex Conserved Extended Haplotype 8.1 in AIDS-Related Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

From SNPedia

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 rs1270942, 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
rs1270942
Position
chr6:31951083

Genome-wide association studies (11)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Systemic lupus erythematosus C OR 2.28 2E-165 PubMed
CD5/TNFRSF9 protein level ratio — OR 0.21 7E-105 PubMed
CST3/RARRES2 protein level ratio — OR 0.13 2E-37 PubMed
CD99L2/RARRES2 protein level ratio — OR 0.11 1E-30 PubMed
SPON1 protein levels G β 0.08 4E-27 PubMed
Type 1 diabetes and autoimmune thyroid diseases C OR 3.05 5E-25 PubMed
Hemoglobin concentration G β 0.049 4E-19 PubMed
Blood cell traits latent factor 9 (white cell) — — 2E-11 PubMed
IDP dMRI TBSS ICVF Retrolenticular part of internal capsule R G β 0.082 1E-8 PubMed
Inguinal hernia A OR 1.1 1E-8 PubMed
Quinate levels in elite athletes — OR 0.65 5E-6 PubMed

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