Genetic variant

rs3024971

rs3024971 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 rs3024971 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.

Polymorphisms in immune mediators associate with risk of cervical cancer

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 rs3024971, 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
rs3024971
Position
chr12:57099944

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Eosinophil count — — 8E-39 PubMed
eosinophil (absolute count, mean, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.061 2E-35 PubMed
Eosinophil count G — 4E-35 PubMed
Eosinophill percentage (UKB data field 30210) G β 0.038 1E-33 PubMed
Asthma G β 0.094 2E-33 PubMed
Asthma T OR 1.12 3E-32 PubMed
eosinophil (fraction, mean, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.054 2E-30 PubMed
Allergic disease (asthma, hay fever or eczema) T OR 1.11 5E-30 PubMed
Asthma G — 1E-28 PubMed
Eosinophill count (UKB data field 30150) G β 0.036 1E-28 PubMed
Eczema — — 2E-27 PubMed
eosinophil (absolute count, maximum, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.051 1E-26 PubMed
Asthma G OR 0.11 5E-26 PubMed
Hay fever and/or eczema T OR 1.11 7E-25 PubMed
Atopic asthma — — 3E-24 PubMed
Eosinophil count G β 0.028 3E-23 PubMed
eosinophil (fraction, maximum, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.045 1E-22 PubMed
eosinophil (fraction, mean, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.048 6E-20 PubMed
Asthma in any disease G OR 0.9 6E-19 PubMed
Eosinophil count G β 0.032 8E-18 PubMed

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