rs17576(A;G)

Higher risk for MI and lung cancer, and COPD in smokers

Magnitude
2.0Worth knowing
Repute
Bad
Frequency
43%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs17576(A;G)
Gene
MMP9

Frequency

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

  • European ancestry (Utah)51%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)48%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)48%
  • Maasai (Kenya)47%
  • Chinese (Denver)45%
  • Luhya (Kenya)43%
  • Tuscan38%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)38%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)37%
  • Gujarati Indian37%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)36%

Other genotypes of rs17576

  1. A;AMost notableNot ratednormal risk for lung cancer; higher risk for MIWorth knowing · 2.031% 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;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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.