Genetic variant

rs79236614

rs79236614 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 8. Carrying it does not, on its own, mean you have or will develop any condition.

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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 rs79236614 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 rs79236614, if your test read this position.

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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.

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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.
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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
rs79236614
Position
chr8:20002949

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Triglycerides C OR 0.18 1E-194 PubMed
Total concentration of lipoprotein particles G OR 0.14 3E-158 PubMed
High density lipoprotein cholesterol levels C OR 0.14 8E-128 PubMed
Cholesterol to total lipids ratio in small HDL C OR 0.16 4E-122 PubMed
Cholesteryl esters to total lipids ratio in small HDL C OR 0.15 1E-107 PubMed
Cholesterol to total lipids in small HDL percentage (UKB data field 23645) G OR 0.16 3E-92 PubMed
Total concentration of lipoprotein particles G β 0.091 4E-86 PubMed
Phospholipids to total lipids ratio in medium LDL C OR 0.13 2E-76 PubMed
Very low density lipoprotein cholesterol levels — OR 2 1E-61 PubMed
Phospholipids to total lipids in medium LDL percentage (UKB data field 23619) G OR 0.12 2E-55 PubMed
Metabolic syndrome C OR 0.2 2E-28 PubMed
Triglyceride levels — β 0.073 6E-26 PubMed
High density lipoprotein cholesterol levels — OR 1.86 3E-21 PubMed
Omega-3 fatty acids to Omega-6 fatty acids ratio G — 3E-15 PubMed
Triacylglycerol(53:3)_[M+NH4]1+ levels T β 0.092 4E-10 PubMed
Triacylglycerol(52:3)_[M+NH4]1+ levels T β 0.052 4E-10 PubMed
Sphingomyelin(42:3)_[M+H]1+ levels A OR 0.15 4E-10 PubMed
Sphingomyelin(42:4)_[M+H]1+ levels G β 0.077 4E-10 PubMed
Diacylglycerol(34:1)_[M+H-H2O]1+ levels T OR 0.1 4E-10 PubMed
Diacylglycerol(34:2)_[M+H-H2O]1+ levels C β 0.079 4E-10 PubMed

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