Genetic variant

rs3811444

rs3811444 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 1. 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 rs3811444 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 rs3811444, 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
rs3811444
Position
chr1:247876149

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Immature fraction of reticulocytes T β 0.099 5E-328 PubMed
mean corpuscular volume (MCV, maximum, inv-norm transformed) C OR 0.11 1E-323 PubMed
mean corpuscular volume (MCV, mean, inv-norm transformed) C OR 0.11 1E-323 PubMed
mean corpuscular volume (MCV, minimum, inv-norm transformed) C OR 0.1 5E-287 PubMed
mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC, mean, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.097 5E-282 PubMed
Mean reticulocyte volume (UKB data field 30260) T β 0.071 1E-272 PubMed
Mean corpuscular volume T — 6E-256 PubMed
Mean reticulocyte volume T β 0.084 5E-255 PubMed
Red cell distribution width — — 2E-243 PubMed
Red blood cell erythrocyte distribution width (UKB data field 30070) T β 0.066 6E-232 PubMed
mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC, maximum, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.086 9E-230 PubMed
Red cell distribution width C β 0.064 3E-226 PubMed
Mean corpuscular volume T β 0.061 3E-225 PubMed
Red cell distribution width C — 8E-224 PubMed
Mean spheric corpuscular volume T β 0.068 4E-190 PubMed
Red cell distribution width T β 0.07 7E-184 PubMed
Immature fraction of reticulocytes T OR 0.1 3E-172 PubMed
mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC, mean, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.087 6E-172 PubMed
High light scatter reticulocyte count T β 0.071 7E-170 PubMed
mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC, minimum, inv-norm transformed) C β 0.074 3E-169 PubMed

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