Genetic variant

rs2074356

rs2074356 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 12. 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 rs2074356 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.

rs2074356 is a SNP in an uncharacterized locus on ch 12 known as the chromosome 12 open reading fram...

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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 rs2074356, 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
rs2074356
Position
chr12:112207597

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Gamma glutamyl transpeptidase T β 0.016 3E-126 PubMed
Alcohol consumption T OR 1.06 9E-59 PubMed
Alcohol consumption (drinkers vs non-drinkers) A OR 2.41 6E-48 PubMed
HDL cholesterol T β 0.035 7E-37 PubMed
Esophageal cancer T OR 1.56 2E-31 PubMed
Body mass index A β 0.066 3E-31 PubMed
Metabolic syndrome — — 2E-23 PubMed
Weight A β 0.038 2E-21 PubMed
Blood urea nitrogen levels A β 0.019 5E-18 PubMed
Estimated glomerular filtration rate A OR 0.81 2E-17 PubMed
Aspartate aminotransferase to alanine aminotransferase ratio x alcohol consumption interaction — β 0.005 9E-17 PubMed
Coffee consumption A OR 0.19 2E-16 PubMed
Glycemic traits T OR 0.17 6E-14 PubMed
Hypertension A OR 0.78 3E-13 PubMed
Biomedical quantitative traits T β 0.01 8E-12 PubMed
Type 2 diabetes A OR 0.8 1E-11 PubMed
Type 2 diabetes A OR 0.7 6E-11 PubMed
Mean corpuscular volume A β 0.004 2E-10 PubMed
High density lipoprotein cholesterol levels — — 2E-9 PubMed
Renal function-related traits (BUN) A β 0.006 2E-9 PubMed

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