Genetic variant
rs6734238
rs6734238 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 2. 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 rs6734238 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 rs6734238, 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
- rs6734238
- Position
- chr2:113083453
Genome-wide association studies (20)
| Trait | Risk allele | OR / beta | P-value | Study |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL1RN/LGALS9 protein level ratio | — | OR 0.26 | 1E-303 | PubMed |
| IL1R1/IL1RN protein level ratio | — | OR 0.24 | 5E-254 | PubMed |
| Interleukin-1-receptor antagonist levels | A | OR 0.21 | 3E-110 | PubMed |
| white blood cell count (WBC, mean, inv-norm transformed) | A | β 0.062 | 1E-108 | PubMed |
| C-reactive protein levels | A | β 0.045 | 1E-107 | PubMed |
| Neutrophil count | G | — | 2E-96 | PubMed |
| Neutrophil count | G | β 0.039 | 2E-90 | PubMed |
| White blood cell count | G | — | 2E-80 | PubMed |
| White blood cell count | G | β 0.036 | 3E-77 | PubMed |
| white blood cell count (WBC, minimum, inv-norm transformed) | A | β 0.05 | 1E-68 | PubMed |
| platelet count (mean, inv-norm transformed) | A | β 0.049 | 5E-66 | PubMed |
| white blood cell count (WBC, mean, inv-norm transformed) | A | β 0.052 | 6E-66 | PubMed |
| White blood cell count | A | β 0.033 | 2E-61 | PubMed |
| neutrophil (absolute count, minimum, inv-norm transformed) | A | β 0.05 | 8E-61 | PubMed |
| monocyte (fraction, mean, inv-norm transformed) | A | β 0.052 | 1E-60 | PubMed |
| neutrophil (fraction, minimum, inv-norm transformed) | A | β 0.05 | 3E-59 | PubMed |
| neutrophil (fraction, mean, inv-norm transformed) | A | β 0.048 | 1E-55 | PubMed |
| neutrophil (absolute count, mean, inv-norm transformed) | A | β 0.048 | 4E-54 | PubMed |
| white blood cell count (WBC, maximum, inv-norm transformed) | A | β 0.041 | 5E-51 | PubMed |
| White blood cell count | G | β 0.034 | 5E-51 | PubMed |
Sources
- dbSNP: rs6734238 — the reference record
- ClinVar — clinical interpretations submitted by laboratories
- SNPedia — community-written summaries
- GWAS Catalog — association studies