rs16890979(C;T)

1.7x risk of gout

Magnitude
0.0Typical
Repute
Bad
Frequency
33%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs16890979(C;T)
Gene
SLC2A9

Frequency

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

  • Maasai (Kenya)58%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)54%
  • Luhya (Kenya)53%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)51%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)41%
  • European ancestry (Utah)38%
  • Tuscan35%
  • Gujarati Indian25%
  • Chinese (Denver)7%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)2%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)2%

Other genotypes of rs16890979

  1. C;CGood3.4x risk of goutTypical · 0.059% of people
  2. T;TMost notableGoodlower systolic blood pressure, serum uric acid and gout riskWorth knowing · 2.08% of people

All about rs16890979

Source and license

Adapted from rs16890979(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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.