rs7529229(C;C)

2.5x higher risk of multiple myeloma than AA

Magnitude
1.4Minor
Repute
Bad
Frequency
27%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs7529229(C;C)
Gene
IL6R

Frequency

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

  • Yoruba (Nigeria)51%
  • Luhya (Kenya)49%
  • Maasai (Kenya)45%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)35%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)33%
  • Chinese (Denver)22%
  • Tuscan16%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)15%
  • European ancestry (Utah)14%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)14%
  • Gujarati Indian3%

Other genotypes of rs7529229

  1. T;TGoodcommon/normalTypical · 0.028% of people

All about rs7529229

Notes

From SNPedia

This SNP is in strong LD with rs1801278, rs6684439, and rs8192284 and likely represent the same risk allele of the IL-6 receptor gene.

Source and license

Adapted from rs7529229(C;C) 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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.