Genetic variant

rs322351

rs322351 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 5. 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 rs322351 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 rs322351, 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
rs322351
Position
chr5:172767870

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH, mean, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.041 5E-46 PubMed
mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH, maximum, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.039 1E-43 PubMed
mean corpuscular volume (MCV, mean, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.034 3E-35 PubMed
mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH, minimum, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.035 4E-35 PubMed
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin T — 1E-32 PubMed
mean corpuscular volume (MCV, maximum, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.033 2E-32 PubMed
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin T β 0.023 3E-31 PubMed
mean corpuscular volume (MCV, minimum, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.031 5E-29 PubMed
Mean corpuscular volume T — 5E-28 PubMed
Mean corpuscular volume T β 0.02 4E-27 PubMed
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin — — 5E-27 PubMed
mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH, mean, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.034 2E-23 PubMed
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin T β 0.02 1E-22 PubMed
mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH, minimum, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.03 7E-20 PubMed
Mean corpuscular volume T β 0.018 4E-19 PubMed
Mean corpuscular volume C β 0.1 5E-19 PubMed
Red cell distribution width C β 0.015 5E-16 PubMed
Red cell distribution width C — 3E-14 PubMed
mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC, mean, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.018 1E-11 PubMed
Red blood cell count T β 0.009 2E-11 PubMed

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