Genetic variant
rs1412444
rs1412444 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 10. 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 rs1412444 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 rs1412444, 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
- rs1412444
- Position
- chr10:89243170
Genome-wide association studies (20)
| Trait | Risk allele | OR / beta | P-value | Study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-reactive protein levels | C | β 0.027 | 1E-35 | PubMed |
| C-reactive protein levels (UKB data field 30710) | T | β 0.024 | 1E-32 | PubMed |
| Coronary artery disease | — | β 0.058 | 4E-29 | PubMed |
| Coronary artery disease | — | — | 3E-28 | PubMed |
| Neutrophil count | T | — | 2E-25 | PubMed |
| C-reactive protein | T | β 0.024 | 1E-24 | PubMed |
| white blood cell count (WBC, mean, inv-norm transformed) | C | β 0.03 | 1E-24 | PubMed |
| White blood cell count | T | — | 3E-23 | PubMed |
| Takes medication for coronary artery/ coronary heart disease? | C | β 0.071 | 9E-23 | PubMed |
| Coronary artery disease | T | β 0.064 | 3E-22 | PubMed |
| Coronary artery disease | T | β 0.056 | 2E-21 | PubMed |
| Coronary atherosclerosis (PheCode 411.4) | C | β 0.052 | 4E-21 | PubMed |
| Heart attack | C | β 0.07 | 1E-20 | PubMed |
| Abdominal aortic aneurysm | — | β 0.073 | 9E-19 | PubMed |
| Takes medication for coronary artery/ coronary heart disease? | C | β 0.064 | 2E-16 | PubMed |
| Large artery stroke (MTAG) | T | OR 1.07 | 4E-15 | PubMed |
| Heart attack | C | β 0.064 | 1E-14 | PubMed |
| Takes medication for heart attack? | C | β 0.063 | 2E-13 | PubMed |
| Coronary artery disease (MTAG) | T | β 0.024 | 2E-13 | PubMed |
| Coronary heart disease | T | OR 1.09 | 3E-13 | PubMed |
Sources
- dbSNP: rs1412444 — the reference record
- ClinVar — clinical interpretations submitted by laboratories
- SNPedia — community-written summaries
- GWAS Catalog — association studies