rs16901979(A;C)

1.5x increased risk for prostate cancer

Magnitude
2.9Worth knowing
Repute
Bad
Frequency
33%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs16901979(A;C)
Gene
None listed

Frequency

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

  • African ancestry (Southwest US)54%
  • Luhya (Kenya)52%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)49%
  • Chinese (Denver)43%
  • Maasai (Kenya)43%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)38%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)34%
  • Gujarati Indian24%
  • Tuscan9%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)7%
  • European ancestry (Utah)6%

Other genotypes of rs16901979

  1. A;AMost notableBad1.5x increased risk for prostate cancerWorth knowing · 2.98% of people
  2. C;CGoodnormal riskTypical · 0.060% of people

All about rs16901979

Source and license

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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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