rs493258(C;C)
1.15x risk of Age Related Macular Degeneration
- Magnitude
- 2.0Worth knowing
- Repute
- Bad
- Frequency
- 18%Average of 11 populations
- On SNPedia
- rs493258(G;G)Minus strand
- Gene
- LOC101928635
Frequency
Share of people with C;C in each HapMap population.
- Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)31%
- Tuscan29%
- African ancestry (Southwest US)26%
- Luhya (Kenya)26%
- European ancestry (Utah)24%
- Yoruba (Nigeria)18%
- Gujarati Indian14%
- Han Chinese (Beijing)11%
- Maasai (Kenya)10%
- Chinese (Denver)8%
- Japanese (Tokyo)5%
Other genotypes of rs493258
Source and license
Adapted from rs493258(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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