rs5743708(A;G)

Lower risk for Lyme; 1.6x higher risk of tuberculosis

Magnitude
1.5Minor
Repute
Not rated
Frequency
2%Average of 4 populations
On SNPedia
rs5743708(A;G)
Gene
TLR2

Frequency

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

  • European ancestry (Utah)10%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)0%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)0%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)0%

Other genotypes of rs5743708

  1. A;AMost notableBad6x increased risk of tuberculosisImportant · 3.00% of people
  2. G;GGoodnormalTypical · 0.098% of people

All about rs5743708

Notes

From SNPedia

Good news and bad news: this genotype is reported to exhibit lower susceptibility to acquiring Lyme disease, including late-stage Lyme disease, but it is also associated with a 1.6x increased risk for acquiring tuberculosis.

Source and license

Adapted from rs5743708(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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.