rs2254958(A;G)

1.24x reported increased risk for Alzheimer's; however, see comments on main rs-page

Magnitude
1.2Minor
Repute
Bad
Frequency
34%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs2254958(C;T)Minus strand
Gene
EIF2AK2

Frequency

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

  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)59%
  • Tuscan55%
  • European ancestry (Utah)50%
  • Gujarati Indian43%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)36%
  • Chinese (Denver)31%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)30%
  • Maasai (Kenya)27%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)25%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)13%
  • Luhya (Kenya)10%

Other genotypes of rs2254958

  1. G;GMost notableBad1.61x reported increased risk for Alzheimer's; however, see comments on main rs-pageMinor · 1.544% of people
  2. A;AGoodcommonTypical · 0.022% of people

All about rs2254958

Source and license

Adapted from rs2254958(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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.