Genetic variant

rs710446

rs710446 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 3. 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 rs710446 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.

We hold only the basic reference record for this variant: its ID and position. Many catalogued variants have never been linked to anything.

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 rs710446, 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
rs710446
Position
chr3:186742138

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Coagulation Factor XI levels T OR 0.52 2E-352 PubMed
Plasma kallikrein levels T OR 0.51 7E-345 PubMed
Fibrinogen levels or factor VII levels or factor XI levels or tissue plasminogen activator levels (pleiotropy) — — 5E-324 PubMed
Ischemic stroke or factor XI levels (pleiotropy) — — 5E-307 PubMed
Venous thromboembolism or factor XI levels (pleiotropy) — — 6E-304 PubMed
Factor XI — β 0.089 2E-302 PubMed
Coronary artery disease or factor XI levels (pleiotropy) — — 6E-294 PubMed
Activated partial thromboplastin time C OR 1.18 2E-203 PubMed
Serum levels of protein F11 C OR 0.42 5E-171 PubMed
Serum levels of protein KLKB1 C OR 0.47 4E-157 PubMed
Coagulation Factor XI levels C OR 0.53 2E-83 PubMed
Kininostatin levels T OR 0.25 4E-80 PubMed
Plasma kallikrein levels C OR 0.5 3E-73 PubMed
AGRP/NPY protein level ratio — OR 0.1 6E-52 PubMed
ITGA6/STX8 protein level ratio — β 0.093 1E-40 PubMed
ESAM/SPINT2 protein level ratio — β 0.089 5E-37 PubMed
SPINT2 protein levels C β 0.063 2E-31 PubMed
MOES protein level (protein group normalized intensity) C OR 0.36 2E-27 PubMed
WAS protein levels C β 0.063 4E-24 PubMed
CAPN3 protein levels C β 0.064 1E-23 PubMed

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