rs2180439(C;T)

Increased risk of Male Pattern Baldness.

Magnitude
2.5Worth knowing
Repute
Bad
Frequency
47%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs2180439(C;T)
Gene
None listed

Frequency

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

  • Gujarati Indian54%
  • Tuscan53%
  • Maasai (Kenya)53%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)51%
  • Luhya (Kenya)50%
  • Chinese (Denver)50%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)47%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)44%
  • European ancestry (Utah)40%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)40%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)40%

Other genotypes of rs2180439

  1. C;CGoodReduced risk of Male Pattern Baldness.Worth knowing · 2.024% of people
  2. T;TMost notableBad2x increased risk of Male Pattern Baldness.Important · 3.029% of people

All about rs2180439

Notes

From SNPedia

One copy of the risk allele, and one copy of the normal allele. Verified in Europeans and Asians. Family Tree DNA, which tends to skew heterozygous results like this in the most positive light, reports this as less likely to go bald, but 23andMe doesn't mention it.

Source and license

Adapted from rs2180439(C;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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.