rs12979860(T;T)

~20-25% of such hepatitis C patients respond to treatment

Magnitude
3.0Important
Repute
Bad
Frequency
27%Average of 3 populations
On SNPedia
rs12979860(T;T)
Gene
IFNL4

Frequency

Share of people with T;T in each HapMap population.

  • Yoruba (Nigeria)50%
  • Luhya (Kenya)24%
  • Gujarati Indian8%

Other genotypes of rs12979860

  1. C;CGood~80% of such hepatitis C patients respond to treatmentWorth knowing · 2.029% of people
  2. C;TBad~20-40% of such hepatitis C patients respond to treatmentWorth knowing · 2.543% of people

All about rs12979860

Notes

From SNPedia

This is considered an unfavorable response genotype for hepatitis C patients considering the use of PEG-interferon-alpha containing therapeutic treatment. This basically means the odds of a successful response are lower than for patients with the rs12979860(C;C) genotype.

Source and license

Adapted from rs12979860(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.

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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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