rs1042778(T;T)
Slightly lower oxytocin & empathy? Possibly higher 'callous-unemotional' trait frequency in children.
- Magnitude
- 1.5Minor
- Repute
- Bad
- Frequency
- 18%Average of 11 populations
- On SNPedia
- rs1042778(T;T)
- Gene
- OXTR
Frequency
Share of people with T;T in each HapMap population.
- Luhya (Kenya)50%
- Yoruba (Nigeria)46%
- Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)23%
- African ancestry (Southwest US)21%
- Maasai (Kenya)19%
- Gujarati Indian18%
- European ancestry (Utah)13%
- Tuscan10%
- Han Chinese (Beijing)0%
- Japanese (Tokyo)0%
- Chinese (Denver)0%
Other genotypes of rs1042778
Notes
From SNPedia
see rs1042778 for discussion of callous-unemotional trait study and other oxytocin associations
Source and license
Adapted from rs1042778(T;T) on SNPedia, using a snapshot taken October 16, 2026. SNPedia content is shared under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US, and this page is shared under the same license.
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