Genetic variant

rs1801282

rs1801282 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 3. 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 rs1801282 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.

rs1801282, also known as Pro12Ala, is a common SNP in the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor...

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 rs1801282, 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
rs1801282
Position
chr3:12351626

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Sex hormone-binding globulin levels adjusted for BMI G β 0.022 3E-67 PubMed
Albumin levels C β 0.048 9E-55 PubMed
Sex hormone-binding globulin levels adjusted for BMI G β 0.024 9E-43 PubMed
Serum albumin levels G β 0.048 2E-41 PubMed
Sex hormone-binding globulin levels G β 0.018 1E-37 PubMed
Type 2 diabetes G OR 0.16 5E-37 PubMed
Gamma glutamyl transferase levels C β 0.037 7E-37 PubMed
Body fat percentage (adjusted for testosterone and SHBG) — OR 0.37 2E-32 PubMed
Glycine levels G β 0.03 1E-31 PubMed
Total protein levels (UKB data field 30860) G β 0.036 3E-31 PubMed
Albumin (maximum, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.047 5E-30 PubMed
Diabetes / "Sugar" C β 0.092 5E-30 PubMed
Sex hormone-binding globulin levels — β 0.051 3E-28 PubMed
Serum total protein levels G β 0.039 2E-26 PubMed
Body mass index G β 0.022 5E-26 PubMed
Triglyceride levels G β 0.027 5E-26 PubMed
Calcium levels (UKB data field 30680) G β 0.033 2E-25 PubMed
Weight C β 0.026 4E-23 PubMed
Fasting insulin G β 0.031 4E-23 PubMed
Sex hormone-binding globulin levels G β 0.02 8E-23 PubMed

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