Genetic variant
rs1173727
rs1173727 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 5. 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 rs1173727 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 rs1173727, 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?
- Find out whether you carry it. Reading about a variant says nothing about you until you know your genotype.
- Put it in context. Add your blood results, so the variant can be read against what your body is doing.
- Ask questions. Dr. Hemsworth, our AI assistant, can explain this variant and your results in plain English.
- 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
- rs1173727
- Position
- chr5:32830415
Genome-wide association studies (20)
| Trait | Risk allele | OR / beta | P-value | Study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What is your height? (cm, inv-normal transformed) | T | β 0.08 | 6E-144 | PubMed |
| Systolic blood pressure | C | OR 0.55 | 2E-110 | PubMed |
| Systolic blood pressure | — | — | 9E-84 | PubMed |
| Diastolic blood pressure | C | OR 0.28 | 8E-77 | PubMed |
| Pulse pressure | C | OR 0.28 | 4E-59 | PubMed |
| Height (maximum, inv-normal transformed) | T | β 0.055 | 3E-56 | PubMed |
| height (mean, inv-normal transformed) | T | β 0.054 | 8E-55 | PubMed |
| height (minimum, inv-normal transformed) | T | β 0.05 | 2E-50 | PubMed |
| Diastolic blood pressure | T | OR 0.29 | 3E-43 | PubMed |
| What is your height? (cm, inv-normal transformed) | T | β 0.052 | 8E-38 | PubMed |
| Hypertension | — | β 0.063 | 4E-24 | PubMed |
| Systolic blood pressure | T | β 0.033 | 7E-23 | PubMed |
| Height | T | β 0.034 | 2E-21 | PubMed |
| Hip circumference adjusted for BMI | T | β 0.027 | 4E-21 | PubMed |
| Body surface area | — | β 0.004 | 1E-18 | PubMed |
| Coronary artery disease (MTAG) | C | OR 7.21 | 6E-13 | PubMed |
| Systolic blood pressure | — | — | 5E-12 | PubMed |
| Mean arterial pressure | A | OR 0.33 | 5E-12 | PubMed |
| Ascending aorta minimum area | T | β 0.047 | 7E-11 | PubMed |
| Ascending aorta maximum area | T | β 0.049 | 3E-10 | PubMed |
Sources
- dbSNP: rs1173727 — the reference record
- ClinVar — clinical interpretations submitted by laboratories
- SNPedia — community-written summaries
- GWAS Catalog — association studies