TraitHigh when 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
- TAS2R16 rs846664
- Strength of evidence
- High when observed
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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