Genetic variant
rs17632159
rs17632159 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 5. 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 rs17632159 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 rs17632159, 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
- rs17632159
- Position
- chr5:73135655
Genome-wide association studies (19)
| Trait | Risk allele | OR / beta | P-value | Study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serum urate levels | C | β 0.043 | 8E-70 | PubMed |
| Serum urate levels | C | β 0.043 | 2E-66 | PubMed |
| Urate levels (UKB data field 30880) | C | β 0.03 | 3E-66 | PubMed |
| Urate levels | C | β 0.032 | 6E-59 | PubMed |
| Serum uric acid levels | C | β 0.03 | 3E-54 | PubMed |
| Serum urate levels | C | β 0.044 | 7E-48 | PubMed |
| Gout | C | OR 0.91 | 9E-44 | PubMed |
| Gout | C | OR 0.93 | 8E-43 | PubMed |
| Uric acid levels | C | β 0.036 | 5E-27 | PubMed |
| Gout and other crystal arthrop (PheCode 274) | G | β 0.084 | 4E-26 | PubMed |
| Gout (PheCode 274.1) | G | β 0.087 | 5E-26 | PubMed |
| Gout (PheCode 274.1) | G | β 0.082 | 3E-18 | PubMed |
| Serum urate levels | C | β 0.031 | 1E-14 | PubMed |
| Takes medication for gout? | G | β 0.081 | 2E-12 | PubMed |
| Takes medication for gout? | G | β 0.079 | 1E-11 | PubMed |
| Urate levels | C | β 0.039 | 4E-11 | PubMed |
| Serum uric acid levels | C | β 0.027 | 2E-10 | PubMed |
| Urate levels | G | β 0.031 | 5E-7 | PubMed |
| Serum uric acid levels | C | β 0.022 | 1E-6 | PubMed |
Sources
- dbSNP: rs17632159 — the reference record
- ClinVar — clinical interpretations submitted by laboratories
- SNPedia — community-written summaries
- GWAS Catalog — association studies