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TraitHigh for weight in European-ancestry cohorts; no supported appetite result

Appetite & weight tendency

Appetite & weight tendency is a genetic trait Biome reports in its weight & metabolism panel: An MC4R version is linked to higher average adult weight.

Category
Weight & metabolism
Markers
MC4R rs17782313
Strength of evidence
High for weight in European-ancestry cohorts; no supported appetite result

Genes

Markers (rsIDs)

How Biome reads this

Biome's whole-genome test reads this from one saliva sample, alongside all 3.2 billion letters of your DNA.

Biome DNA test

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