rs4959039(A;G)

1.4x higher risk for multiple sclerosis

Magnitude
1.4Minor
Repute
Bad
Frequency
32%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs4959039(A;G)
Gene
None listed

Frequency

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

  • European ancestry (Utah)50%
  • Chinese (Denver)48%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)42%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)41%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)36%
  • Tuscan32%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)30%
  • Luhya (Kenya)29%
  • Gujarati Indian21%
  • Maasai (Kenya)15%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)13%

Other genotypes of rs4959039

  1. A;ANot ratednormalTypical · 0.063% of people
  2. G;GMost notableBad1.6x higher risk for multiple sclerosisMinor · 1.64% of people

All about rs4959039

Source and license

Adapted from rs4959039(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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.