Genetic variant

rs913678

rs913678 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 20. 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 rs913678 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 rs913678, 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
rs913678
Position
chr20:50338887

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
monocyte (fraction, mean, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.099 2E-196 PubMed
Monocyte percentage (UKB data field 30190) C β 0.049 1E-135 PubMed
monocyte (fraction, maximum, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.074 1E-122 PubMed
monocyte (fraction, mean, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.083 9E-122 PubMed
Monocyte percentage of white cells C β 0.056 8E-119 PubMed
Monocyte count (UKB data field 30130) C β 0.044 1E-111 PubMed
Monocyte count C β 0.05 3E-97 PubMed
monocyte (fraction, maximum, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.067 2E-92 PubMed
monocyte (fraction, minimum, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.057 9E-71 PubMed
Height T β 0.011 2E-58 PubMed
Monocyte percentage of white cells C β 0.055 3E-47 PubMed
Lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio T — 5E-46 PubMed
Granulocyte percentage of myeloid white cells C β 0.049 2E-37 PubMed
Monocyte count C β 0.048 2E-36 PubMed
Mouth ulcers C OR 1.06 3E-36 PubMed
Monocyte count T — 5E-31 PubMed
DMP1 protein levels C β 0.048 2E-18 PubMed
LILRA5 protein levels C β 0.038 1E-12 PubMed
monocyte (absolute count, mean, inv-norm transformed) T β 0.049 3E-12 PubMed
Height — β 0.012 2E-11 PubMed

Sources