rs2229616(C;C)

Normal

Magnitude
0.0Typical
Repute
Bad
Frequency
95%Average of 10 populations
On SNPedia
rs2229616(G;G)Minus strand
Gene
MC4R

Frequency

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

  • Japanese (Tokyo)99%
  • European ancestry (Utah)98%
  • Tuscan98%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)97%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)97%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)94%
  • Gujarati Indian93%
  • Luhya (Kenya)93%
  • Chinese (Denver)92%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)88%

Other genotypes of rs2229616

  1. T;TMost notableGoodlower risk of metabolic syndromeWorth knowing · 2.1<1% of people
  2. C;TGoodlower risk of metabolic syndromeWorth knowing · 2.05% of people
  3. C;CGoodlower BMI; decreased obesity riskWorth knowing · 2.095% of people

All about rs2229616

Source and license

Adapted from rs2229616(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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.