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.
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