rs1421085(C;C)

~1.7x increased obesity risk

Magnitude
3.1Important
Repute
Bad
Frequency
6%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs1421085(C;C)
Gene
FTO

Frequency

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

  • Tuscan27%
  • European ancestry (Utah)20%
  • Gujarati Indian7%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)4%
  • Chinese (Denver)3%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)2%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)2%
  • Maasai (Kenya)<1%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)0%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)0%
  • Luhya (Kenya)0%

Other genotypes of rs1421085

  1. C;TBad~1.3x increased obesity riskWorth knowing · 2.529% of people
  2. T;TGoodnormal obesity riskTypical · 0.166% of people

All about rs1421085

Source and license

Adapted from rs1421085(C;C) 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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.