Genetic variant

rs2280401

rs2280401 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 19. 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 rs2280401 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 rs2280401, 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
rs2280401
Position
chr19:49496752

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Albumin levels A OR 0.12 3E-138 PubMed
Serum total protein levels A β 0.066 3E-83 PubMed
Serum albumin levels A β 0.065 5E-79 PubMed
Serum total protein levels — β 0.097 1E-62 PubMed
Albumin levels — β 0.02 4E-52 PubMed
Total cholesterol levels A β 0.046 2E-21 PubMed
Non-albumin protein levels A β 0.029 4E-17 PubMed
Non-albumin protein levels — β 0.05 4E-16 PubMed
Calcium levels A β 0.027 1E-15 PubMed
Metabolite levels A β 0.029 9E-13 PubMed
Aspartate aminotransferase levels A β 0.027 2E-12 PubMed
Hematocrit — OR 0.14 1E-11 PubMed
Hemoglobin levels — β 0.047 3E-11 PubMed
Total cholesterol levels A β 0.021 1E-10 PubMed
Free cholesterol in small LDL A β 0.035 2E-10 PubMed
Total cholesterol levels — β 0.03 4E-10 PubMed
Apolipoprotein B levels A β 0.02 7E-10 PubMed
Aspartate aminotransferase to alanine aminotransferase ratio A β 0.02 3E-9 PubMed
Height A β 0.018 3E-9 PubMed
Hematological and biochemical traits A OR 0.11 3E-8 PubMed

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