Genetic variant
rs17362588
rs17362588 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 2. 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 rs17362588 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 rs17362588, 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
- rs17362588
- Position
- chr2:178856319
Genome-wide association studies (18)
| Trait | Risk allele | OR / beta | P-value | Study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulse rate (UKB data field 102) | A | β 0.086 | 2E-132 | PubMed |
| heart rate (HR, minimum, inv-normal transformed) | G | β 0.096 | 5E-80 | PubMed |
| QRS duration | A | β 0.063 | 4E-31 | PubMed |
| Heart rate | A | OR 0.74 | 4E-26 | PubMed |
| Diastolic blood pressure (MTAG) | A | β 0.03 | 3E-24 | PubMed |
| Diastolic blood pressure | G | β 0.04 | 7E-21 | PubMed |
| Diastolic blood pressure (UKB data field 4079) | A | β 0.028 | 1E-16 | PubMed |
| QRS duration | A | OR 0.45 | 6E-16 | PubMed |
| Diastolic blood pressure | A | β 0.034 | 2E-15 | PubMed |
| Diastolic blood pressure | A | OR 0.32 | 2E-13 | PubMed |
| Multi-trait sum score | — | — | 7E-12 | PubMed |
| QRS duration | A | OR 0.53 | 3E-11 | PubMed |
| 12-lead ECG morphology phenotype | — | — | 4E-11 | PubMed |
| R start and S end in voltage difference in lead aVR | — | — | 3E-10 | PubMed |
| Diastolic blood pressure | G | β 0.03 | 1E-9 | PubMed |
| Heart rate response to recovery post exercise (10 sec) | G | β 0.062 | 2E-9 | PubMed |
| Pulse pressure | A | OR 0.26 | 1E-8 | PubMed |
| Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (sarcomere negative) | G | OR 0.35 | 7E-8 | PubMed |
Sources
- dbSNP: rs17362588 — the reference record
- ClinVar — clinical interpretations submitted by laboratories
- SNPedia — community-written summaries
- GWAS Catalog — association studies