rs144848(C;C)

Very slightly increased breast cancer risk

Magnitude
2.0Worth knowing
Repute
Bad
Frequency
4%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs144848(G;G)Minus strand
Gene
BRCA2

Frequency

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

  • European ancestry (Utah)8%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)7%
  • Gujarati Indian7%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)7%
  • Tuscan6%
  • Chinese (Denver)5%
  • Maasai (Kenya)5%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)4%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)<1%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)0%
  • Luhya (Kenya)0%

Other genotypes of rs144848

  1. A;CBadvery slightly increased breast cancer riskMinor · 1.537% of people
  2. A;AGoodnormalTypical · 0.059% of people

All about rs144848

Source and license

Adapted from rs144848(G;G) 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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