Genetic variant

rs477992

rs477992 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 rs477992 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 rs477992, 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
rs477992
Position
chr1:119714953

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Serine levels G OR 22.27 8E-110 PubMed
Glycine levels G β 0.03 2E-55 PubMed
Serine levels A OR 0.18 4E-31 PubMed
Red blood cell count G β 0.022 2E-29 PubMed
Red blood cell count G — 2E-26 PubMed
Serine levels A β 0.04 3E-21 PubMed
Hereditary and idiopathic peripheral neuropathy (PheCode 356) A β 0.071 2E-19 PubMed
Red blood cell count A β 0.017 4E-19 PubMed
Red blood cell count G β 0.018 6E-18 PubMed
Hematocrit G β 0.016 2E-16 PubMed
Alanine levels G β 0.02 3E-16 PubMed
Chronic ulcer of leg or foot (PheCode 707.2) A β 0.083 2E-15 PubMed
Glycine levels A β 0.03 5E-15 PubMed
red blood cell count (RBC, mean, inv-norm transformed) A β 0.022 7E-15 PubMed
Chronic ulcer of skin (PheCode 707) A β 0.069 1E-14 PubMed
Metabolic traits A β 0.051 3E-14 PubMed
Hemoglobin concentration G β 0.015 1E-13 PubMed
red blood cell count (RBC, minimum, inv-norm transformed) A β 0.018 6E-12 PubMed
Acute osteomyelitis (PheCode 710.11) A OR 0.12 2E-11 PubMed
Osteomyelitis (PheCode 710.1) A β 0.088 3E-11 PubMed

Sources