Genetic variant
rs2147896
rs2147896 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 rs2147896 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 rs2147896, 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
- rs2147896
- Position
- chr10:98388419
Genome-wide association studies (20)
| Trait | Risk allele | OR / beta | P-value | Study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N6-methyllysine levels | G | OR 1.26 | 7E-5400 | PubMed |
| N6,N6-dimethyllysine levels | G | OR 1.16 | 9E-3246 | PubMed |
| Plasma N6-methyllysine levels in chronic kidney disease | G | OR 1.44 | 1E-2832 | PubMed |
| X-12112 levels | G | OR 1.14 | 2E-2804 | PubMed |
| Plasma N6,N6-dimethyllysine levels in chronic kidney disease | G | OR 1.01 | 5E-2333 | PubMed |
| N6-methyllysine levels | G | OR 1.16 | 8E-2182 | PubMed |
| N2-acetyl,N6,N6-dimethyllysine levels | G | OR 1.07 | 6E-2075 | PubMed |
| Cerebrospinal fluid N6-methyllysine levels | A | OR 0.62 | 1E-2033 | PubMed |
| Urine N2-acetyl,N6,N6-dimethyllysine levels in chronic kidney disease | G | OR 1.79 | 3E-1709 | PubMed |
| Plasma X-12112 levels in chronic kidney disease | G | OR 1.55 | 2E-1614 | PubMed |
| N2-acetyl,N6-methyllysine levels | G | OR 0.99 | 1E-1468 | PubMed |
| Urine N6,N6-dimethyllysine levels in chronic kidney disease | G | OR 1.11 | 2E-1449 | PubMed |
| N-methylpipecolate levels | G | OR 0.95 | 5E-946 | PubMed |
| Urine N2-acetyl,N6-methyllysine levels in chronic kidney disease | G | OR 1.34 | 7E-935 | PubMed |
| Urinary metabolite modules (eigenmetabolites) in chronic kidney disease | G | β 0.03 | 3E-917 | PubMed |
| Cerebrospinal fluid N6,N6-dimethyllysine levels | A | OR 0.5 | 7E-555 | PubMed |
| Urinary metabolite levels in chronic kidney disease | G | OR 1.1 | 3E-520 | PubMed |
| Cerebrospinal fluid N2-acetyl,N6-methyllysine levels | A | OR 0.7 | 8E-416 | PubMed |
| Metabolite levels (N6,N6-dimethyllysine; N6.N6-dimethyllysine) | G | OR 1.09 | 5E-303 | PubMed |
| Metabolite levels (N6-methyllysine) | G | OR 1.19 | 5E-303 | PubMed |
Sources
- dbSNP: rs2147896 — the reference record
- ClinVar — clinical interpretations submitted by laboratories
- SNPedia — community-written summaries
- GWAS Catalog — association studies