Genetic variant
rs11789898
rs11789898 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 9. 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 rs11789898 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 rs11789898, 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
- rs11789898
- Position
- chr9:134060541
Genome-wide association studies (13)
| Trait | Risk allele | OR / beta | P-value | Study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| height (minimum, inv-normal transformed) | G | β 0.06 | 3E-65 | PubMed |
| Mean corpuscular volume (UKB data field 30040) | T | β 0.028 | 2E-31 | PubMed |
| Standing height (UKB data field 50) | T | β 0.013 | 1E-20 | PubMed |
| Tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member EDAR levels | T | OR 0.15 | 3E-18 | PubMed |
| What is your height? (cm, inv-normal transformed) | G | β 0.044 | 3E-14 | PubMed |
| platelet count (maximum, inv-norm transformed) | G | β 0.033 | 7E-14 | PubMed |
| Red blood cell count | — | — | 3E-11 | PubMed |
| Body fat percentage (adjusted for testosterone and SHBG) | — | OR 0.16 | 8E-11 | PubMed |
| Platelet count | T | OR 3.01 | 2E-10 | PubMed |
| Total PHF-tau (SNP x SNP interaction) | — | — | 5E-9 | PubMed |
| Colorectal cancer | T | β 0.053 | 6E-9 | PubMed |
| Body size (confirmatory factor analysis Factor 21) | — | — | 8E-9 | PubMed |
| Tinnitus | — | — | 3E-7 | PubMed |
Sources
- dbSNP: rs11789898 — the reference record
- ClinVar — clinical interpretations submitted by laboratories
- SNPedia — community-written summaries
- GWAS Catalog — association studies