rs1799884(T;T)

2.7x increased risk for Type 2 Diabetes. Mothers have babies 54g heavier.

Magnitude
3.0Important
Repute
Bad
Frequency
3%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs1799884(A;A)Minus strand
Gene
GCK

Frequency

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

  • Maasai (Kenya)8%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)7%
  • European ancestry (Utah)6%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)4%
  • Chinese (Denver)3%
  • Luhya (Kenya)3%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)2%
  • Tuscan1%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)<1%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)0%
  • Gujarati Indian0%

Other genotypes of rs1799884

  1. C;TBad1.3x increased risk for Type 2 Diabetes. Mothers have babies 27g heavier.Worth knowing · 2.030% of people
  2. C;CGoodMothers have typical Birth-Weight babies. Slightly lower risk of Type 2 Diabetes.Worth knowing · 2.067% of people

All about rs1799884

Notes

From SNPedia

Increased birth weight for babies whose mother has this SNP.

Source and license

Adapted from rs1799884(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.

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