rs8192284(A;A)

Reduced risk of multiple myeloma

Magnitude
0.0Typical
Repute
Good
Frequency
54%Average of 11 populations
On SNPedia
rs8192284(A;A)
Gene
IL6R

Frequency

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

  • Yoruba (Nigeria)87%
  • Luhya (Kenya)86%
  • Maasai (Kenya)80%
  • African ancestry (Southwest US)70%
  • Gujarati Indian49%
  • European ancestry (Utah)43%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)43%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)37%
  • Tuscan36%
  • Chinese (Denver)34%
  • Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)28%

Other genotypes of rs8192284

  1. A;CBad1.7x increased melanoma riskTypical · 0.036% of people
  2. C;CBad2.5x increased risk of multiple myeloma versus AA genotypeTypical · 0.011% of people

All about rs8192284

Source and license

Adapted from rs8192284(A;A) 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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.