rs11170164

A SNP in the KRT5 gene on chromosome 12. Its most notable genotype is T;T: 1.35x risk of basal cell carcinoma

Gene
KRT5
Location
Chr 1252,519,884 (GRCh38)
Highest magnitude
2.0Worth knowing
Tested on
23andMe, AncestryDNA, FamilyTreeDNA
Minor allele frequency
3%

Genotypes

Plus strand, as in 23andMe and AncestryDNA files.

  1. T;TMost notableBad1.35x risk of basal cell carcinomaWorth knowing · 2.00% of people
  2. G;GNot ratedNo summary available.Typical · 0.00% of people
  3. C;CGoodcommon on affy axiom dataTypical · 0.095% of people

SNPedia records rs11170164 on the minus strand: (A;A), (C;C), (G;G). Magnitude rates how notable a genotype is from 0 to 10, not how risky it is.

Frequency

Share of each genotype in 9 HapMap populations.

  • AverageT;T 0% G;G 0% C;C 95%
  • European ancestry (Utah)T;T 0% G;G 0% C;C 85%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)T;T 0% G;G 0% C;C 100%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)T;T 0% G;G 0% C;C 100%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)T;T 0% G;G 0% C;C 100%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)T;T 0% G;G 0% C;C 98%
  • Gujarati IndianT;T 0% G;G 0% C;C 91%
  • Luhya (Kenya)T;T 0% G;G 0% C;C 99%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)T;T 0% G;G 0% C;C 95%
  • TuscanT;T 0% G;G 0% C;C 87%

Conditions, medicines and genes

Other KRT5 SNPs

All KRT5 SNPs

Notes

From SNPedia

Notes

23andMe blog rs11170164 T 1.35 Basal Cell Carcinoma

Source and license

Adapted from rs11170164 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.

SNPedia is a community-edited wiki. Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice. Magnitude is a community rating of how interesting a genotype is, not a risk score.