Genetic variant

rs10512472

rs10512472 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 rs10512472 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 rs10512472, 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
rs10512472
Position
chr17:35557785

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Mean platelet thrombocyte volume (UKB data field 30100) C β 0.057 1E-150 PubMed
Mean platelet volume T — 2E-127 PubMed
Mean platelet volume T β 0.06 3E-126 PubMed
mean platelet volume (MPV, mean, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.093 1E-116 PubMed
Platelet count C β 0.089 2E-110 PubMed
Mean platelet volume C β 0.09 2E-109 PubMed
mean platelet volume (MPV, maximum, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.088 2E-106 PubMed
ELOA/SRP14 protein level ratio — OR 0.19 2E-102 PubMed
mean platelet volume (MPV, minimum, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.083 5E-96 PubMed
APEX1/SRP14 protein level ratio — OR 0.17 9E-79 PubMed
platelet count (mean, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.063 7E-67 PubMed
PRKRA protein levels C OR 0.13 1E-62 PubMed
mean platelet volume (MPV, mean, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.066 2E-58 PubMed
platelet count (minimum, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.054 3E-55 PubMed
mean platelet volume (MPV, minimum, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.06 7E-52 PubMed
platelet count (maximum, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.053 2E-50 PubMed
Plateletcrit C β 0.043 5E-47 PubMed
CDKN1A/TBL1X protein level ratio — OR 0.12 1E-42 PubMed
Y-box-binding protein 2 levels T OR 0.21 2E-37 PubMed
CDKN1A/NCK2 protein level ratio — OR 0.11 4E-35 PubMed

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