Genetic variant

rs157582

rs157582 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 19. 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 rs157582 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 rs157582, 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
rs157582
Position
chr19:44892962

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Alzheimer's disease or family history of Alzheimer's disease T — 6E-189 PubMed
Alzheimer's disease T — 2E-135 PubMed
Alzheimer's disease — OR 2.73 4E-63 PubMed
Psychosis and Alzheimer's disease — OR 2.3 9E-52 PubMed
Triglyceride levels x long total sleep time interaction (2df test) — β 0.034 9E-32 PubMed
Cerebrospinal fluid AB1-42 levels — — 1E-23 PubMed
Triglycerides T β 0.078 4E-22 PubMed
Cerebrospinal fluid t-tau:AB1-42 ratio — OR 0.11 3E-21 PubMed
Cerebrospinal fluid p-Tau181p:AB1-42 ratio — β 0.011 3E-20 PubMed
Cerebrospinal fluid t-tau:AB1-42 ratio — — 2E-16 PubMed
Cingulate cortical amyloid beta load — — 4E-16 PubMed
Memory decline — β 0.012 7E-16 PubMed
PAI-2 protein levels (SomaScan ID:12587-65) T OR 0.93 7E-16 PubMed
Mental health study participation (completed survey) T β 0.011 8E-16 PubMed
Multi-trait sex score — — 1E-15 PubMed
Cerebrospinal fluid AB1-42 levels — β 235.582 2E-15 PubMed
Memory decline — β 0.013 2E-15 PubMed
Protein Wnt-10b level in Chronic kidney disease with hypertension and no diabetes (21940_12) T OR 0.45 5E-13 PubMed
Metabolic syndrome C β 0.096 1E-12 PubMed
Baseline memory in impaired cognition — OR 0.23 6E-12 PubMed

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