rs1859962(G;G)

1.28x increased risk for prostate cancer

Magnitude
2.3Worth knowing
Repute
Bad
Frequency
15%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs1859962(G;G)
Gene
CASC17

Frequency

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

  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)31%
  • Tuscan28%
  • Gujarati Indian23%
  • European ancestry (Utah)19%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)18%
  • Chinese (Denver)15%
  • Maasai (Kenya)15%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)9%
  • Luhya (Kenya)5%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)2%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)2%

Other genotypes of rs1859962

  1. G;TGoodnormal riskTypical · 0.047% of people
  2. T;TGoodnormal riskTypical · 0.038% of people

All about rs1859962

Source and license

Adapted from rs1859962(G;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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.