rs885479(G;G)
Darker skin color
- Magnitude
- 2.0Worth knowing
- Repute
- Not rated
- Frequency
- 66%Average of 11 populations
- On SNPedia
- rs885479(G;G)
- Gene
- MC1R
Frequency
Share of people with G;G in each HapMap population.
- Maasai (Kenya)99%
- Luhya (Kenya)99%
- Yoruba (Nigeria)98%
- Gujarati Indian96%
- Tuscan96%
- African ancestry (Southwest US)95%
- European ancestry (Utah)80%
- Mexican ancestry (Los Angeles)40%
- Chinese (Denver)10%
- Han Chinese (Beijing)7%
- Japanese (Tokyo)6%
Other genotypes of rs885479
Source and license
Adapted from rs885479(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 Its entries can be incomplete, out of date or wrong, and nothing here is a diagnosis or medical advice.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.