Genetic variant

rs887829

rs887829 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 2. 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 rs887829 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.

rs887829 is a SNP in the UGT1A1 gene. The minor allele of this SNP has been reported to be associate...

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 rs887829, 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
rs887829
Position
chr2:233759924

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Bilirubin (z,z) levels T OR 0.68 6E-493 PubMed
Bilirubin (z,z) levels T OR 0.74 3E-462 PubMed
Biliverdin levels T OR 0.7 3E-403 PubMed
Bilirubin degradation product, C17H18N2O4 (3) levels T OR 0.6 2E-366 PubMed
X-16946 levels T OR 0.52 2E-363 PubMed
Bilirubin (E,E) levels T OR 0.6 2E-349 PubMed
Bilirubin (E,E) levels T OR 0.61 2E-343 PubMed
Succinimide levels T OR 0.44 4E-333 PubMed
Bilirubin degradation product, C16H18N2O5 (3) levels T OR 0.56 2E-308 PubMed
Bilirubin (E,Z or Z,E) levels T OR 0.65 4E-301 PubMed
X-24849 levels T OR 0.57 1E-300 PubMed
X-24849 levels T OR 0.66 8E-300 PubMed
X-11530 levels T OR 0.65 3E-298 PubMed
Bilirubin (E,E) levels T OR 0.65 3E-295 PubMed
X-11522 levels T OR 0.65 8E-295 PubMed
X-16946 levels T OR 0.65 3E-294 PubMed
Bilirubin degradation product, C16H18N2O5 (1) levels T OR 0.56 3E-292 PubMed
Bilirubin (E,Z or Z,E) levels T OR 0.71 7E-290 PubMed
X-21448 levels T OR 0.64 2E-287 PubMed
Bilirubin degradation product, C16H18N2O5 (2) levels T OR 0.54 3E-281 PubMed

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