rs16890979(T;T)

Lower systolic blood pressure, serum uric acid and gout risk

Magnitude
2.0Worth knowing
Repute
Good
Frequency
8%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs16890979(T;T)
Gene
SLC2A9

Frequency

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

  • African ancestry (Southwest US)19%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)17%
  • Luhya (Kenya)17%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)14%
  • Maasai (Kenya)8%
  • Gujarati Indian4%
  • Tuscan4%
  • European ancestry (Utah)3%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)0%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)0%
  • Chinese (Denver)0%

Other genotypes of rs16890979

  1. C;CGood3.4x risk of goutTypical · 0.059% of people
  2. C;TBad1.7x risk of goutTypical · 0.033% of people

All about rs16890979

Source and license

Adapted from rs16890979(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.

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