rs6983267(G;G)

1.6x increased risk for prostate cancer; also other cancers

Magnitude
3.2Important
Repute
Bad
Frequency
45%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs6983267(G;G)
Gene
CASC8

Frequency

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

  • Yoruba (Nigeria)97%
  • Luhya (Kenya)96%
  • Maasai (Kenya)79%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)68%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)39%
  • Gujarati Indian30%
  • European ancestry (Utah)21%
  • Chinese (Denver)20%
  • Tuscan18%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)15%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)11%

Other genotypes of rs6983267

  1. G;TBad1.3x risk of prostate cancer; aspirin reduces risk of colorectal cancerWorth knowing · 2.735% of people
  2. T;TGoodnormal risk for cancers; aspirin reduces risk for colorectal cancerWorth knowing · 2.020% of people

All about rs6983267

Notes

From SNPedia

1.4 times as likely to develop colorectal cancer

Source and license

Adapted from rs6983267(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.

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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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