rs2229169(T;T)

1.5x increased risk of heart attack and stroke but better emotional memory and stop-go performance

Magnitude
1.5Minor
Repute
Bad
Frequency
14%Average of 4 populations
On SNPedia
rs2229169(A;A)Minus strand
Gene
ADRA2B

Frequency

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

  • Han Chinese (Beijing)27%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)14%
  • European ancestry (Utah)9%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)6%

Other genotypes of rs2229169

  1. G;GGood1.5x decreased risk of heart attack and stroke but worse emotional memory and stop-go performanceMinor · 1.547% of people

All about rs2229169

Source and license

Adapted from rs2229169(A;A) 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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.