Genetic variant
rs2066938
rs2066938 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 rs2066938 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 rs2066938, 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
- rs2066938
- Position
- chr12:120722812
Genome-wide association studies (9)
| Trait | Risk allele | OR / beta | P-value | Study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butyrylcarnitine levels | A | OR 0.21 | 3E-630 | PubMed |
| Metabolic traits | G | OR 0.61 | 4E-305 | PubMed |
| Serum metabolite levels | — | OR 0.2 | 4E-177 | PubMed |
| Butyrylcarnitine levels (Metabolon platform) | — | OR 1.01 | 2E-115 | PubMed |
| Ethylmalonate levels | — | OR 1.2 | 2E-63 | PubMed |
| Butyrylcarnitine (C4) levels | — | OR 1.09 | 4E-46 | PubMed |
| Butyrylcarnitine levels (Biocrates platform) | — | OR 0.12 | 3E-44 | PubMed |
| Ethylmalonate levels in elite athletes | — | OR 0.82 | 6E-37 | PubMed |
| Protein quantitative trait loci (liver) | G | OR 0.28 | 4E-14 | PubMed |
Sources
- dbSNP: rs2066938 — the reference record
- ClinVar — clinical interpretations submitted by laboratories
- SNPedia — community-written summaries
- GWAS Catalog — association studies