TraitExploratory
Appetite & weight tendency
Appetite & weight tendency is a genetic trait Biome reports in its weight & metabolism panel: How your MC4R appetite gene leans your food intake and body-weight set point.
- Category
- Weight & metabolism
- Markers
- MC4R rs17782313
- Strength of evidence
- Exploratory
Genes
Markers (rsIDs)
How Biome reads this
Biome's at-home DNA test reads this directly from one saliva sample, alongside 650,000+ other markers.
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