Genetic variant

rs1966265

rs1966265 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 5. 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 rs1966265 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.

Association of a FGFR-4 Gene Polymorphism with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia and Neonatal Respiratory Distress

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 rs1966265, 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
rs1966265
Position
chr5:177089630

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Height A β 0.047 1E-300 PubMed
Height A β 0.049 1E-300 PubMed
Height A β 0.049 4E-80 PubMed
Waist circumference adjusted for body mass index A β 0.044 2E-34 PubMed
Waist-hip index A β 0.042 3E-31 PubMed
Waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for BMI A β 0.038 3E-26 PubMed
Waist circumference adjusted for body mass index A β 0.034 2E-25 PubMed
Hip shape (DXA scan) T OR 0.13 4E-20 PubMed
Waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for BMI (additive genetic model) A β 0.023 2E-19 PubMed
Height A β 0.022 2E-19 PubMed
FVC — — 1E-18 PubMed
Waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for BMI (additive genetic model) A β 0.022 8E-17 PubMed
Forced expiratory volume (baseline) G β 0.015 2E-14 PubMed
Hip index A β 0.028 4E-14 PubMed
A body shape index A β 0.026 5E-13 PubMed
Multi-trait sex score — — 5E-13 PubMed
Waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for BMI (additive genetic model) A β 0.026 5E-13 PubMed
A body shape index A β 0.023 3E-12 PubMed
Height — β 0.02 3E-12 PubMed
Type 2 diabetes A β 0.047 7E-12 PubMed

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