rs1726866(A;G)

Can taste bitter

Magnitude
0.1Typical
Repute
Not rated
Frequency
47%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs1726866(C;T)Minus strand
Gene
TAS2R38

Frequency

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

  • African ancestry (Southwest US)53%
  • Gujarati Indian52%
  • Maasai (Kenya)50%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)49%
  • European ancestry (Utah)47%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)46%
  • Tuscan45%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)45%
  • Luhya (Kenya)43%
  • Chinese (Denver)42%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)42%

Other genotypes of rs1726866

  1. G;GGoodcan taste bitterTypical · 0.138% of people
  2. A;AMost notableNot ratedpossible unable to taste bitterMinor · 1.116% of people

All about rs1726866

Source and license

Adapted from rs1726866(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.

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