Genetic variant

rs893817

rs893817 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 15. 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 rs893817 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.

Association between single nucleotide polymorphisms in the lysyl oxidase-like 1 gene and spontaneous...

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 rs893817, 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
rs893817
Position
chr15:73936724

Genome-wide association studies (6)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Vertical cup-disc ratio (multi-trait analysis) G β 0.006 6E-12 PubMed
Pulse pressure A OR 0.1 2E-10 PubMed
Vertical cup-disc ratio (adjusted for vertical disc diameter) G β 0.005 3E-9 PubMed
Pulse pressure A OR 0.11 3E-8 PubMed
Pulse pressure A β 0.097 5E-8 PubMed
Aortic root size G β 0.02 3E-6 PubMed

Sources