rs6997709(G;T)

1.2x higher risk for hypertension

Magnitude
2.0Worth knowing
Repute
Bad
Frequency
27%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs6997709(G;T)
Gene
None listed

Frequency

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

  • Tuscan42%
  • European ancestry (Utah)37%
  • Maasai (Kenya)37%
  • Gujarati Indian32%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)32%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)31%
  • Luhya (Kenya)20%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)19%
  • Yoruba (Nigeria)19%
  • Chinese (Denver)17%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)11%

Other genotypes of rs6997709

  1. G;GMost notableBad1.5x higher risk for hypertensionWorth knowing · 2.070% of people
  2. T;TNot ratednormalTypical · 0.03% of people

All about rs6997709

Source and license

Adapted from rs6997709(G;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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.