rs629242(C;T)

Somewhat higher risk for prostate cancer

Magnitude
2.0Worth knowing
Repute
Bad
Frequency
37%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs629242(C;T)
Gene
KIAA1211

Frequency

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

  • African ancestry (Southwest US)49%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)46%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)46%
  • Chinese (Denver)44%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)42%
  • Tuscan35%
  • Luhya (Kenya)35%
  • European ancestry (Utah)31%
  • Gujarati Indian30%
  • Maasai (Kenya)27%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)21%

Other genotypes of rs629242

  1. C;CGoodnormal riskTypical · 0.055% of people
  2. T;TMost notableBadsomewhat higher risk for prostate cancerWorth knowing · 2.18% of people

All about rs629242

Source and license

Adapted from rs629242(C;T) 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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.