Genetic variant

rs2079147

rs2079147 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 7. 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 rs2079147 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.

Association of Genetic Variants in CDK6 and XRCC1 with The Risk of Dysplastic Nevi in Melanoma-Prone Families

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 rs2079147, 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
rs2079147
Position
chr7:92703061

Genome-wide association studies (6)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Height G β 0.042 1E-300 PubMed
Height G β 0.039 1E-300 PubMed
Hip circumference adjusted for BMI A β 0.024 6E-17 PubMed
Multi-trait sex score — — 4E-15 PubMed
Multi-trait sex score — — 1E-11 PubMed
Resistance to COVID-19 infection (Exposed negative vs positive) — — 7E-7 PubMed

Sources