rs79556279

A SNP on chromosome 6. Its most notable genotype is G;T: increased risk of Behçet's disease

Gene
None listed
Location
Chr 631,362,069 (GRCh38)
Highest magnitude
4.1Very important
Tested on
Not on consumer chips

Genotypes

As shown in 23andMe and AncestryDNA files.

  1. G;GGoodcommon in complete genomicsTypical · 0.0
  2. G;TMost notableBadincreased risk of Behçet's diseaseVery important · 4.1
  3. T;TBadincreased risk of Behçet's diseaseVery important · 4.1

On SNPedia: (G;G), (G;T), (T;T). Magnitude rates how notable a genotype is from 0 to 10, not how risky it is.

Conditions, medicines and genes

Notes

From SNPedia

Notes

Primary risk for Behçet's disease associated with the minor (T) allele of rs79556279 A meta-analysis totaling ~5,000 Behçet's disease (BD) patients from 78 independent studies calculated a pooled odds ratio of 5.78 (CI: 5.0-6.7) for HLA-B51/B5 allele carriers to develop BD compared with noncarriers.

G;T

HLA-B*51 the primary risk in Behçet's disease and rs79556279=T has the strongest association of any SNP in the HLA-B region.

T;T

HLA-B*51 the primary risk in Behçet's disease and rs79556279=T has the strongest association of any SNP in the HLA-B region.

References

Source and license

Adapted from rs79556279 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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.