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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)

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