Genetic variant

rs1532085

rs1532085 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 15. 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 rs1532085 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 rs1532085, 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
rs1532085
Position
chr15:58391167

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Cholesteryl esters to total lipids ratio in very large HDL A OR 0.13 3E-244 PubMed
HDL cholesterol levels A OR 0.11 1E-213 PubMed
Cholesteryl Esters to Total Lipids in Large LDL percentage G β 0.098 2E-211 PubMed
Omega-6 fatty acid levels A — 1E-203 PubMed
HDL cholesterol A OR 0.11 1E-188 PubMed
Cholesteryl esters to total lipids ratio in large VLDL A OR 0.11 9E-171 PubMed
Cholesterol to total lipids ratio in large VLDL A OR 0.11 2E-168 PubMed
Triglycerides to total lipids ratio in chylomicrons and extremely large VLDL A OR 0.11 2E-155 PubMed
Triglyceride levels in very large HDL G OR 0.26 9E-155 PubMed
Phospholipids to total lipids in chylomicrons and extremely large VLDL percentage (UKB data field 23579) A OR 0.13 3E-152 PubMed
1-palmitoyl-2-arachidonoyl-GPE (16:0/20:4) levels G OR 0.39 1E-145 PubMed
Free cholesterol to total lipids ratio in chylomicrons and extremely large VLDL A OR 0.11 2E-144 PubMed
Cholesteryl esters to total lipids in large VLDL percentage (UKB data field 23591) A OR 0.11 5E-133 PubMed
Cholesterol to total lipids in large VLDL percentage (UKB data field 23590) A OR 0.12 1E-132 PubMed
Polyunsaturated fatty acid levels A — 1E-132 PubMed
Cholesteryl Esters to Total Lipids in Large LDL percentage G β 0.071 9E-131 PubMed
Triglycerides to total lipids in chylomicrons and extremely large VLDL percentage (UKB data field 23583) A OR 0.12 2E-124 PubMed
High density lipoprotein cholesterol levels A β 0.08 2E-116 PubMed
1-oleoyl-2-arachidonoyl-GPE (18:1/20:4) levels G OR 0.36 3E-116 PubMed
1-stearoyl-2-arachidonoyl-GPE (18:0/20:4) levels G OR 0.35 4E-115 PubMed

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