rs493258(C;T)

1.15x risk of Age Related Macular Degeneration

Magnitude
2.0Worth knowing
Repute
Bad
Frequency
47%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs493258(A;G)Minus strand
Gene
LOC101928635

Frequency

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

  • Yoruba (Nigeria)58%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)57%
  • Tuscan55%
  • European ancestry (Utah)50%
  • Maasai (Kenya)50%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)47%
  • Luhya (Kenya)46%
  • Chinese (Denver)43%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)39%
  • Gujarati Indian35%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)34%

Other genotypes of rs493258

  1. T;TGoodNo summary available.Typical · 0.035% of people
  2. C;CBad1.15x risk of Age Related Macular DegenerationWorth knowing · 2.018% of people

All about rs493258

Source and license

Adapted from rs493258(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.

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