Genetic variant

rs9807989

rs9807989 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 rs9807989 is the catalogue number of one of them. Which letters you carry there — one copy from each parent — is your genotype.

Genome-wide association study to identify genetic determinants of severe asthma

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 rs9807989, 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
rs9807989
Position
chr2:102354740

Genome-wide association studies (11)

TraitRisk alleleOR / betaP-valueStudy
Eosinophil count C — 6E-305 PubMed
Eosinophil count C β 0.08 9E-297 PubMed
Eosinophil count — — 8E-290 PubMed
Eosinophill percentage (UKB data field 30210) C β 0.078 9E-285 PubMed
Eosinophill count (UKB data field 30150) C β 0.066 8E-201 PubMed
Eosinophil count C β 0.054 4E-190 PubMed
Eosinophil percentage of white cells C β 0.046 5E-48 PubMed
IL1R2 protein levels C β 0.061 4E-26 PubMed
Hayfever C β 0.097 4E-24 PubMed
RNASE3 protein levels C β 0.043 1E-11 PubMed
Asthma — OR 1.33 6E-8 PubMed

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