rs1805008(C;C)

Common in clinvar

Magnitude
0.0Typical
Repute
Good
Frequency
94%Average of 10 populations
On SNPedia
rs1805008(C;C)
Gene
MC1R

Frequency

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

  • Maasai (Kenya)99%
  • Luhya (Kenya)99%
  • Chinese (Denver)98%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)98%
  • Gujarati Indian97%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)97%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)96%
  • Tuscan91%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)91%
  • European ancestry (Utah)74%

Other genotypes of rs1805008

  1. C;TBadRed hair carrier, higher risk of melanomaWorth knowing · 2.56% of people
  2. T;TMost notableBad~7-10x higher likelihood of red hair; higher risk of melanomaImportant · 3.00% of people

All about rs1805008

Source and license

Adapted from rs1805008(C;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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.