Genetic variant
rs2498786
rs2498786 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 14. 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 rs2498786 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.
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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 rs2498786, 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?
- Find out whether you carry it. Reading about a variant says nothing about you until you know your genotype.
- Put it in context. Add your blood results, so the variant can be read against what your body is doing.
- Ask questions. Dr. Hemsworth, our AI assistant, can explain this variant and your results in plain English.
- 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
- rs2498786
- Position
- chr14:104796031
Genome-wide association studies (18)
| Trait | Risk allele | OR / beta | P-value | Study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SSC4D protein levels | G | β 0.087 | 2E-62 | PubMed |
| HDL cholesterol levels | C | β 0.025 | 4E-38 | PubMed |
| XPNPEP2 protein levels | G | β 0.072 | 6E-37 | PubMed |
| Sex hormone-binding globulin levels adjusted for BMI | C | β 0.01 | 2E-32 | PubMed |
| Sex hormone-binding globulin levels | C | β 0.011 | 1E-30 | PubMed |
| Sex hormone-binding globulin levels | C | β 0.013 | 9E-20 | PubMed |
| Sex hormone-binding globulin levels adjusted for BMI | C | β 0.011 | 6E-19 | PubMed |
| Phosphatidylcholine levels | G | β 0.02 | 3E-18 | PubMed |
| Total cholines levels | G | β 0.02 | 8E-17 | PubMed |
| Phosphoglycerides levels | G | β 0.02 | 5E-15 | PubMed |
| Phospholipids to Total Lipids in IDL percentage | G | β 0.02 | 9E-14 | PubMed |
| Sphingomyelins levels | G | β 0.01 | 1E-13 | PubMed |
| Sex hormone-binding globulin levels | — | β 0.023 | 9E-13 | PubMed |
| Total phospholipid levels in lipoprotein particles | G | β 0.01 | 2E-12 | PubMed |
| Total esterified cholesterol levels | G | β 0.01 | 6E-12 | PubMed |
| Total cholesterol levels | G | β 0.01 | 2E-10 | PubMed |
| Sex hormone-binding globulin levels | C | β 0.021 | 3E-10 | PubMed |
| Sex hormone-binding globulin levels | — | OR 6.22 | 5E-10 | PubMed |
Sources
- dbSNP: rs2498786 — the reference record
- ClinVar — clinical interpretations submitted by laboratories
- SNPedia — community-written summaries
- GWAS Catalog — association studies