rs3782179(C;C)

9x lower odds of testicular cancer

Magnitude
2.5Worth knowing
Repute
Good
Frequency
27%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs3782179(C;C)
Gene
KITLG

Frequency

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

  • Luhya (Kenya)69%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)63%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)61%
  • Maasai (Kenya)56%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)25%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)6%
  • European ancestry (Utah)5%
  • Chinese (Denver)5%
  • Gujarati Indian4%
  • Tuscan2%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)2%

Other genotypes of rs3782179

  1. C;TGood3x lower odds of testicular cancer risk for menWorth knowing · 2.034% of people
  2. T;TBadcommon, but increased risk of testicular cancerMinor · 1.539% of people

All about rs3782179

Source and license

Adapted from rs3782179(C;C) 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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.