rs1799989(A;C)

Benign most likely

Magnitude
0.5Typical
Repute
Bad
Frequency
30%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs1799989(A;C)
Gene
TYR

Frequency

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

  • Maasai (Kenya)44%
  • Luhya (Kenya)44%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)39%
  • Gujarati Indian38%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)36%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)30%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)24%
  • Tuscan19%
  • Chinese (Denver)19%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)18%
  • European ancestry (Utah)18%

Other genotypes of rs1799989

  1. C;CGoodcommon in clinvarTypical · 0.064% of people

All about rs1799989

Notes

From SNPedia

although reported as an albinism allele, the frequency of this variant seems far too high in most populations to give credence to this.

Source and license

Adapted from rs1799989(A;C) 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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.