TraitSupported in East Asian cohorts
Earwax & underarm odor tendency
Earwax & underarm odor tendency is a genetic trait Biome reports in its body traits panel: This result shows whether you likely have wet or dry earwax. It also shows whether you tend to have more or less underarm odor.
- Category
- Body traits
- Markers
- ABCC11 rs17822931
- Strength of evidence
- Supported in East Asian cohorts
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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