Genetic variant

rs11571833

rs11571833 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 13. 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 rs11571833 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.

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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 rs11571833, 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
rs11571833
Position
chr13:32398489

Genome-wide association studies (18)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Lung cancer (conditioned on cigarettes per day) A OR 0.64 1E-20 PubMed
Lung cancer T OR 2.47 5E-20 PubMed
Lung cancer T OR 1.6 6E-16 PubMed
Breast cancer T OR 1.35 3E-15 PubMed
Breast cancer (estrogen-receptor negative) T OR 1.58 2E-13 PubMed
Cancer T OR 1.6 8E-12 PubMed
Illnesses of father: Lung cancer (UKB data field 20107_3) T OR 0.29 8E-12 PubMed
Small cell lung carcinoma T OR 2.19 3E-8 PubMed
Multiple myeloma T OR 1.57 3E-8 PubMed
Squamous cell lung carcinoma T β 0.5 5E-8 PubMed
Breast cancer T OR 1.26 5E-8 PubMed
Lung cancer in ever smokers T OR 1.49 6E-8 PubMed
Breast cancer T OR 1.27 6E-7 PubMed
Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma — OR 0.36 1E-6 PubMed
Breast cancer T OR 1.27 2E-6 PubMed
Non-small cell lung cancer T OR 0.67 5E-6 PubMed
Breast cancer (estrogen-receptor negative) — OR 1.32 6E-6 PubMed
Breast cancer T OR 1.52 6E-6 PubMed

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