Genetic variant

rs1990760

rs1990760 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 2. 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 rs1990760 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.

This SNP is unclear. According to GWAS one study says risk allele is A, another study says risk alle...

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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 rs1990760, 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
rs1990760
Position
chr2:162267541

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
White blood cell count T β 0.019 7E-24 PubMed
Psoriasis or coronary artery disease T OR 1.1 1E-18 PubMed
White blood cell count T β 0.019 6E-17 PubMed
Monocyte percentage of white cells T β 0.018 8E-16 PubMed
Type 1 diabetes C OR 0.89 2E-15 PubMed
Monocyte percentage (UKB data field 30190) T β 0.015 2E-15 PubMed
Selective IgA deficiency T OR 1.43 4E-15 PubMed
Autoimmune thyroid disease T OR 1.08 1E-14 PubMed
Neutrophil count T β 0.015 1E-14 PubMed
Type 1 diabetes C OR 1.2 2E-14 PubMed
Height T β 0.005 7E-14 PubMed
Psoriasis or type 2 diabetes (trans-disease meta-analysis)(opposite effect) T OR 1.08 2E-13 PubMed
Thyroid stimulating hormone levels T β 0.016 1E-12 PubMed
Neutrophil count T — 2E-12 PubMed
Neutrophil count T β 0.016 5E-12 PubMed
Type 1 diabetes A OR 1.18 2E-11 PubMed
Neutrophil count T β 0.015 3E-11 PubMed
Inflammatory bowel disease — — 4E-10 PubMed
Eosinophil count C — 7E-10 PubMed
Immunoglobulin A — OR 1.49 7E-10 PubMed

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