rs1121980(A;G)

Slight increase (1.67x) in risk for obesity

Magnitude
2.5Worth knowing
Repute
Bad
Frequency
45%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs1121980(C;T)Minus strand
Gene
FTO

Frequency

Share of people with A;G in each HapMap population.

  • Maasai (Kenya)59%
  • European ancestry (Utah)54%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)51%
  • Gujarati Indian51%
  • Luhya (Kenya)49%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)48%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)46%
  • Tuscan44%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)38%
  • Chinese (Denver)32%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)28%

Other genotypes of rs1121980

  1. G;GGoodaverageTypical · 0.039% of people
  2. A;AMost notableBadModerate increase (2.76x) in risk for obesityImportant · 3.016% of people

All about rs1121980

Notes

From SNPedia

see discussion via main rs-page

Source and license

Adapted from rs1121980(C;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.

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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.