rs2300478(G;G)

>1.7x risk for developing restless legs syndrome

Magnitude
2.0Worth knowing
Repute
Bad
Frequency
3%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs2300478(G;G)
Gene
MEIS1

Frequency

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

  • Gujarati Indian8%
  • Chinese (Denver)7%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)7%
  • Tuscan4%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)4%
  • European ancestry (Utah)4%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)3%
  • Luhya (Kenya)<1%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)0%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)0%
  • Maasai (Kenya)0%

Other genotypes of rs2300478

  1. A;ANot ratedNo summary available.Typical · 0.00% of people
  2. G;TBad1.7x risk for developing restless legs syndromeMinor · 1.534% of people
  3. T;TGoodNormal risk of developing restless legs syndromeMinor · 1.062% of people

All about rs2300478

Notes

From SNPedia

Variants in MEIS1 rs2300478, BTBD9 rs9357271, and MAP2K5/SKOR1 rs1026732 confer a significant risk of RLS in a US population. Association studies of variants in MEIS1, BTBD9, and MAP2K5/SKOR1 with restless legs syndrome in a US population.

References

Source and license

Adapted from rs2300478(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.

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