rs16944(G;G)

Slightly increased (~2x or less) risk for certain mental disorders

Magnitude
2.0Worth knowing
Repute
Bad
Frequency
25%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs16944(G;G)
Gene
IL1B

Frequency

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

  • European ancestry (Utah)42%
  • Tuscan38%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)33%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)32%
  • Chinese (Denver)25%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)24%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)19%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)18%
  • Maasai (Kenya)17%
  • Gujarati Indian14%
  • Luhya (Kenya)12%

Other genotypes of rs16944

  1. A;AMost notableBadIncreased risk (~3x) for osteoarthritisWorth knowing · 2.028% of people
  2. A;GBadMinorly increased risk of mental illness and osteoarthritisMinor · 1.547% of people

All about rs16944

Source and license

Adapted from rs16944(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.

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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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