Genetic variant

rs1183910

rs1183910 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 12. 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 rs1183910 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.

23andMe blog each rs1183910(T) lowered CRP by 13.8&#37

From SNPedia

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 rs1183910, 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
rs1183910
Position
chr12:120983004

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
GGT1/IL1RL2 protein level ratio — OR 0.2 3E-181 PubMed
Gamma glutamyl transferase levels — OR 0.1 5E-141 PubMed
C-reactive protein levels or LDL-cholesterol levels (pleiotropy) A — 6E-128 PubMed
C-reactive protein levels or total cholesterol levels (pleiotropy) A — 8E-128 PubMed
C-reactive protein levels G OR 0.15 2E-124 PubMed
C-reactive protein levels — β 0.083 2E-77 PubMed
CTSF/CTSV protein level ratio — OR 0.12 2E-70 PubMed
C-reactive protein levels — OR 0.12 8E-40 PubMed
AMBP/HYOU1 protein level ratio — β 0.093 1E-37 PubMed
C-reactive protein T OR 13.8 1E-30 PubMed
C-reactive protein levels A OR 0.13 3E-18 PubMed
high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLC, maximum, inv-norm transformed) G β 0.029 8E-17 PubMed
Phosphatidylcholine and other choline levels A β 0.034 9E-17 PubMed
Triglycerides in medium LDL A β 0.034 5E-16 PubMed
N-acetylarginine levels A β 0.09 6E-16 PubMed
Total cholines levels A β 0.033 2E-15 PubMed
Ectonucleotide pyrophosphatase/phosphodiesterase family member 2 levels A β 0.095 8E-15 PubMed
Total phosphoglycerides levels A β 0.032 1E-14 PubMed
high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLC, mean, inv-norm transformed) G β 0.027 1E-14 PubMed
Gamma-glutamylglutamine levels A β 0.081 1E-13 PubMed

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