rs727479 a variant in the CYP19A1 gene

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 rs727479 is the catalogue number of one of them, in the CYP19A1 gene. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.

CYP19A1 (cytochrome P450 family 19 subfamily A member 1): This gene encodes a member of the cytochrome P450 superfamily of enzymes. The cytochrome P450 proteins are monooxygenases which catalyze many reactions involved in drug metabolism and synthesis of cholesterol, steroids and other lipids. This protein localizes to the endoplasmic reticulum and catalyzes the last steps of estrogen biosynthesis.

Gene description from NCBI Gene

endometrial cancer rs727479(A) odds ratio per allele of 1.08, 95&#37

From SNPedia

Why might it matter?

ClinVar records this variant as drug response, meaning linked to how the body handles certain medicines. A classification describes the variant, not you: what it means for one person depends on their genotype, their family history and often on other genes and circumstances.

Conditions it has been reported with

• Letrozole response

Listed in ClinVar submissions for this variant. Being listed is a report of an association, not a statement that the variant causes the condition in any given person.

Do I have this variant?

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

rs727479

Gene

CYP19A1

Position (GRCh38)

chr15:51242349

Variant type

snv

Consequence

intron variant

ClinVar classification

drug response

Genome-wide association studies (8)

How common the less frequent letter is

gnomAD ALL

0%

1kG AFR

18.5%

1kG ALL

28.4%

1kG AMR

37.9%

1kG EAS

28.1%

1kG EUR

36.8%

1kG SAS

73.4%

Sources

• dbSNP: rs727479 — the reference record
• ClinVar — clinical interpretations submitted by laboratories
• SNPedia — community-written summaries
• NCBI Gene: CYP19A1
• Ensembl: CYP19A1
• GWAS Catalog — association studies

Related

Other variants in CYP19A1

• rs121434534
• rs78310315
• rs786205107
• rs121434536
• rs786205108
• rs786205109
• rs80051519
• rs2542423740
• rs786205110
• rs121434538

• The CYP19A1 gene
• SNP explorer
• Gene directory
• Health conditions