Genetic variant

rs968567

rs968567 is a single-letter difference in human DNA, on chromosome 11. 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 rs968567 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.

One of 42 more SNPs associated with rheumatoid arthritis based on a meta-analysis of 30,000 patients...

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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 rs968567, 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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Technical details

dbSNP ID
rs968567
Position
chr11:61828092

Genome-wide association studies (20)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Eicosanoid tetranor 12(R) HETE a levels — OR 0.45 1E-91 PubMed
Lysophosphatidylcholine (20:3) [sn2] levels T OR 0.49 5E-70 PubMed
1-dihomo-linolenoyl-GPC (20:3n3 or 6) levels T OR 0.22 1E-64 PubMed
Lysophosphatidylcholine (20:3) [sn1] levels T OR 0.45 2E-58 PubMed
lysoPhosphatidylcholine acyl C20:3 levels T OR 15.33 5E-53 PubMed
Lysophosphatidylcholine (20:3) [sn2] levels T OR 0.43 3E-52 PubMed
Fatty acid desaturase activity (serum) T — 5E-49 PubMed
Lysophosphatidylcholine (20:3) [sn1] levels T OR 0.4 1E-44 PubMed
Phosphatidylcholine (18:0_20:3) levels T OR 0.39 3E-43 PubMed
1-stearoyl-2-dihomo-linolenoyl-GPC (18:0/20:3n3 or 6) levels T OR 0.26 3E-41 PubMed
Phosphatidylcholine diacyl C38:3 levels T OR 12.97 2E-38 PubMed
Dihomo-linolenate (20:3n3 or n6) levels T OR 0.17 1E-37 PubMed
Plasma 1-palmitoyl-2-dihomo-linolenoyl-GPC (16:0/20:3n3 or 6)* levels in chronic kidney disease T β 0.086 1E-29 PubMed
Phosphatidylcholine (18:0_20:3) levels T OR 0.32 1E-28 PubMed
Phosphatidylcholine (O-16:0_20:3) levels T OR 0.27 2E-23 PubMed
Dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid; eicosatrienoic acid levels (305.2485_0.386) — OR 0.23 1E-22 PubMed
Phosphatidylcholine (16:0_20:3) levels T OR 0.26 3E-22 PubMed
Dihomo-linolenate 20:3n3 or n6 levels T β 0.033 2E-21 PubMed
1-eicosatrienoylglycerophosphocholine levels T β 0.04 3E-19 PubMed
lysoPhosphatidylcholine acyl C20:3 levels T β 0.068 1E-18 PubMed

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