rs17817449(G;T)

~1.3x increased obesity risk

Magnitude
0.0Typical
Repute
Bad
Frequency
40%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs17817449(G;T)
Gene
FTO

Frequency

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

  • European ancestry (Utah)57%
  • Maasai (Kenya)52%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)47%
  • Luhya (Kenya)47%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)44%
  • Tuscan43%
  • Gujarati Indian37%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)35%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)32%
  • Chinese (Denver)26%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)23%

Other genotypes of rs17817449

  1. G;GMost notableBad~1.7x increased obesity riskTypical · 0.012% of people
  2. T;TNot ratednormalTypical · 0.048% of people

All about rs17817449

Source and license

Adapted from rs17817449(G;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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.