rs2287218(C;T)

Slightly higher risk for CHD and IS

Magnitude
1.6Minor
Repute
Bad
Frequency
26%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs2287218(A;G)Minus strand
Gene
MVK

Frequency

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

  • Yoruba (Nigeria)37%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)35%
  • Tuscan33%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)30%
  • European ancestry (Utah)29%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)28%
  • Chinese (Denver)27%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)22%
  • Luhya (Kenya)19%
  • Maasai (Kenya)16%
  • Gujarati Indian15%

Other genotypes of rs2287218

  1. T;TMost notableBadSlightly higher risk for CHD and ISWorth knowing · 2.62% of people
  2. C;CGoodcommon/normalTypical · 0.072% of people

All about rs2287218

Notes

From SNPedia

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Source and license

Adapted from rs2287218(A;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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.