rs17487223(C;T)

Higher lung cancer risk?

Magnitude
2.0Worth knowing
Repute
Bad
Frequency
20%Average of 6 populations
On SNPedia
rs17487223(C;T)
Gene
CHRNB4

Frequency

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

  • European ancestry (Utah)45%
  • Maasai (Kenya)43%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)13%
  • Chinese (Denver)8%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)7%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)5%

Other genotypes of rs17487223

  1. C;CNot ratednormalTypical · 0.075% of people
  2. T;TMost notableBad1.28x lung cancer riskWorth knowing · 2.55% of people

All about rs17487223

Source and license

Adapted from rs17487223(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.

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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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