rs17576(A;A)

Normal risk for lung cancer; higher risk for MI

Magnitude
2.0Worth knowing
Repute
Not rated
Frequency
31%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs17576(A;A)
Gene
MMP9

Frequency

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

  • African ancestry (Southwest US)47%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)47%
  • Luhya (Kenya)46%
  • Tuscan44%
  • European ancestry (Utah)38%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)37%
  • Maasai (Kenya)30%
  • Gujarati Indian26%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)14%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)7%
  • Chinese (Denver)6%

Other genotypes of rs17576

  1. A;GBadhigher risk for MI and lung cancer, and COPD in smokersWorth knowing · 2.043% of people
  2. G;GBadhigher risk for lung cancer, and COPD in smokers; normal risk for MIWorth knowing · 2.026% of people

All about rs17576

Source and license

Adapted from rs17576(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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.