Genetic variant

rs9895661

rs9895661 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 rs9895661 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 rs9895661, 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
rs9895661
Position
chr17:61379228

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Creatinine levels T β 0.051 1E-308 PubMed
Estimated glomerular filtration rate (creatinine) C β 0.008 1E-169 PubMed
Serum creatinine levels T β 0.044 2E-117 PubMed
Creatinine levels (UKB data field 30700) T β 0.047 7E-113 PubMed
Estimated glomerular filtration rate T β 0.007 1E-106 PubMed
Creatinine levels T β 0.066 3E-100 PubMed
Estimated glomerular filtration rate T β 0.066 4E-98 PubMed
Creatinine levels C β 0.055 4E-92 PubMed
creatinine (mean, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.06 7E-80 PubMed
estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR, mean, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.059 3E-79 PubMed
Uric acid levels C β 0.056 7E-78 PubMed
creatinine (minimum, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.058 4E-73 PubMed
estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR, maximum, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.056 9E-70 PubMed
Hemoglobin levels T β 0.023 4E-65 PubMed
Serum urate levels T β 0.046 3E-63 PubMed
creatinine (maximum, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.052 1E-60 PubMed
estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR, mean, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.047 7E-59 PubMed
estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR, minimum, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.049 4E-58 PubMed
creatinine (mean, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.043 5E-58 PubMed
Estimated glomerular filtration rate T β 0.007 1E-57 PubMed

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