TraitHigh when all three observed

Bitter-taste sensitivity (salicin)

Bitter-taste sensitivity (salicin) is a genetic trait Biome reports in its taste & smell panel: How strongly you taste salicin-type bitter compounds, set by a TAS2R16 receptor variant.

Category: Taste & smell
Markers: TAS2R38 haplotype (rs713598, rs1726866, rs10246939)
Strength of evidence: High when all three observed

Genes

TAS2R38

Markers (rsIDs)

rs713598
rs1726866
rs10246939

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