Genetic variant
rs2471738
rs2471738 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 17. 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 rs2471738 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.
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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 rs2471738, 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
- rs2471738
- Position
- chr17:45998697
Genome-wide association studies (16)
| Trait | Risk allele | OR / beta | P-value | Study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anteromedial temporal area (unadjusted for global measures) | — | β 0.073 | 3E-18 | PubMed |
| Forced expiratory volume (baseline) | C | β 0.016 | 3E-15 | PubMed |
| Reaction time | — | β 0.013 | 6E-15 | PubMed |
| Physical function (baseline) | C | β 0.01 | 7E-15 | PubMed |
| Occipital area (unadjusted for global measures) | — | β 0.059 | 2E-12 | PubMed |
| Height (baseline) | C | β 0.009 | 4E-10 | PubMed |
| Dorsolateral prefrontal area (unadjusted for global measures) | — | β 0.051 | 1E-9 | PubMed |
| General cognitive ability | T | OR 6.03 | 2E-9 | PubMed |
| Brain region volumes | — | — | 6E-9 | PubMed |
| Parsopercularis area (unadjusted for global measures) | — | β 0.049 | 6E-9 | PubMed |
| Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or autism spectrum disorder or intelligence (pleiotropy) | — | — | 1E-8 | PubMed |
| Superior parietal area (unadjusted for global measures) | — | β 0.048 | 1E-8 | PubMed |
| Inferior parietal area (unadjusted for global measures) | — | β 0.047 | 2E-8 | PubMed |
| Intelligence | T | OR 5.46 | 5E-8 | PubMed |
| Dorsomedial frontal area (unadjusted for global measures) | — | β 0.045 | 9E-8 | PubMed |
| Precuneus area (unadjusted for global measures) | — | β 0.044 | 2E-7 | PubMed |
Sources
- dbSNP: rs2471738 — the reference record
- ClinVar — clinical interpretations submitted by laboratories
- SNPedia — community-written summaries
- GWAS Catalog — association studies