Genetic variant

rs881844

rs881844 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 17. 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 rs881844 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.

Association analysis of ERBB2 amplicon genetic polymorphisms and STARD3 expression with risk of gastric cancer in the Chinese population

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 rs881844, 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
rs881844
Position
chr17:39653965

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
High density lipoprotein cholesterol levels — — 2E-94 PubMed
High-density lipoprotein levels C β 0.028 5E-64 PubMed
Cholesteryl Esters in Large HDL G β 0.03 1E-57 PubMed
Cholesterol in Large HDL G β 0.03 4E-57 PubMed
Total lipids in large HDL G β 0.03 1E-55 PubMed
High density lipoprotein cholesterol levels G β 0.03 1E-55 PubMed
Phospholipids in large HDL G β 0.03 2E-52 PubMed
HDL cholesterol levels G β 0.03 2E-51 PubMed
Cholesteryl Esters in HDL G β 0.03 6E-51 PubMed
Free Cholesterol to Total Lipids in Medium HDL percentage G β 0.03 1E-49 PubMed
Free Cholesterol in HDL G β 0.03 8E-48 PubMed
Total Lipids in HDL G β 0.03 7E-44 PubMed
Free cholesterol in medium HDL G β 0.02 1E-37 PubMed
Phospholipids in HDL G β 0.02 2E-37 PubMed
Apolipoprotein A1 levels G β 0.02 7E-36 PubMed
HDL cholesterol G β 0.027 3E-35 PubMed
HDL cholesterol levels x alcohol consumption (drinkers vs non-drinkers) interaction (2df) G — 4E-35 PubMed
Cholesterol in Medium HDL G β 0.02 4E-34 PubMed
Phospholipids to Total Lipids in Medium HDL percentage G β 0.02 6E-34 PubMed
Cholesteryl Esters in Medium HDL G β 0.02 1E-32 PubMed

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