rs16901979(A;A)

1.5x increased risk for prostate cancer

Magnitude
2.9Worth knowing
Repute
Bad
Frequency
8%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs16901979(A;A)
Gene
None listed

Frequency

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

  • Yoruba (Nigeria)33%
  • Luhya (Kenya)24%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)7%
  • Chinese (Denver)6%
  • Maasai (Kenya)6%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)5%
  • Gujarati Indian2%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)<1%
  • European ancestry (Utah)0%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)0%
  • Tuscan0%

Other genotypes of rs16901979

  1. A;CBad1.5x increased risk for prostate cancerWorth knowing · 2.933% of people
  2. C;CGoodnormal riskTypical · 0.060% of people

All about rs16901979

Source and license

Adapted from rs16901979(A;A) 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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.