Genetic variant

rs11085824

rs11085824 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 19. 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 rs11085824 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 rs11085824, 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
rs11085824
Position
chr19:12890733

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH, maximum, inv-norm transformed) A β 0.088 2E-159 PubMed
BCAM protein levels G β 0.092 2E-82 PubMed
CA3/HMBS protein level ratio — OR 0.12 5E-66 PubMed
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration G — 8E-64 PubMed
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration G β 0.034 2E-62 PubMed
ARG1/HMBS protein level ratio — OR 0.11 4E-61 PubMed
mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC, mean, inv-norm transformed) A β 0.044 2E-54 PubMed
mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC, maximum, inv-norm transformed) A β 0.042 2E-50 PubMed
ARG1 protein levels G β 0.085 4E-47 PubMed
PARK7/S100A4 protein level ratio — OR 0.1 1E-46 PubMed
BLVRB/CA3 protein level ratio — β 0.088 7E-36 PubMed
MIF/S100A4 protein level ratio — β 0.088 2E-35 PubMed
GLOD4/S100A4 protein level ratio — β 0.086 2E-34 PubMed
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration G β 0.026 2E-31 PubMed
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration G β 0.035 5E-29 PubMed
Arginine levels A OR 10.62 2E-26 PubMed
LHPP/PKLR protein level ratio — β 0.066 4E-21 PubMed
Mean corpuscular volume — — 8E-17 PubMed
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration G β 0.029 1E-16 PubMed
CA1/TGM2 protein level ratio — β 0.059 3E-16 PubMed

Sources