Genetic variant
rs3219175
rs3219175 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 rs3219175 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 rs3219175, 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
- rs3219175
- Position
- chr19:7668969
Genome-wide association studies (14)
| Trait | Risk allele | OR / beta | P-value | Study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resistin levels | A | OR 7.53 | 2E-858 | PubMed |
| Resistin levels | — | OR 0.28 | 1E-307 | PubMed |
| Resistin levels | — | OR 1.18 | 6E-190 | PubMed |
| Resistin levels | — | — | 1E-188 | PubMed |
| Resistin levels | A | OR 0.78 | 4E-156 | PubMed |
| Resistin levels | A | OR 0.8 | 8E-69 | PubMed |
| Resistin levels | A | OR 1.62 | 7E-67 | PubMed |
| Resistin levels in overweight individuals | A | OR 0.76 | 6E-64 | PubMed |
| Resistin levels in type 2 diabetes | A | OR 0.8 | 3E-59 | PubMed |
| Resistin levels | A | OR 0.78 | 8E-58 | PubMed |
| Resistin levels in lean individuals | A | OR 0.82 | 2E-50 | PubMed |
| Resistin level in Chronic kidney disease with hypertension and no diabetes (3046_31) | A | OR 1.2 | 1E-47 | PubMed |
| Resistin levels | A | OR 0.75 | 9E-45 | PubMed |
| Cerebrospinal fluid biomarker levels | — | — | 6E-39 | PubMed |
Sources
- dbSNP: rs3219175 — the reference record
- ClinVar — clinical interpretations submitted by laboratories
- SNPedia — community-written summaries
- GWAS Catalog — association studies