rs2229169(G;G)
1.5x decreased risk of heart attack and stroke but worse emotional memory and stop-go performance
- Magnitude
- 1.5Minor
- Repute
- Good
- Frequency
- 47%Average of 4 populations
- On SNPedia
- rs2229169(C;C)Minus strand
- Gene
- ADRA2B
Frequency
Share of people with G;G in each HapMap population.
- Yoruba (Nigeria)57%
- Japanese (Tokyo)52%
- European ancestry (Utah)49%
- Han Chinese (Beijing)31%
Other genotypes of rs2229169
Source and license
Adapted from rs2229169(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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.