Genetic variant

rs2253310

rs2253310 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 6. 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 rs2253310 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.

The association of Foxo3a gene polymorphisms with serum Foxo3a levels and oxidative stress markers in vitiligo patients

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 rs2253310, 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
rs2253310
Position
chr6:108567390

Genome-wide association studies (12)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Body mass index C β 0.018 1E-20 PubMed
Waist circumference (UKB data field 48) G β 0.016 1E-20 PubMed
Body mass index — — 8E-20 PubMed
Whole body fat mass (UKB data field 23100) G β 0.022 1E-19 PubMed
Hip circumference (UKB data field 49) G β 0.017 2E-19 PubMed
Platelet distribution width (UKB data field 30110) G β 0.016 2E-18 PubMed
BMI and adiposity (confirmatory factor analysis Factor 7) — — 3E-17 PubMed
Body mass index (UKB data field 21001) G β 0.016 1E-16 PubMed
Predicted visceral adipose tissue C β 0.021 3E-16 PubMed
Body mass index G β 0.019 8E-15 PubMed
Adult body size C β 0.011 9E-14 PubMed
Gamma glutamyl transferase levels C β 0.011 5E-11 PubMed

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