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TraitHigh for an additive freckling association in European-ancestry cohorts

Freckling tendency

Freckling tendency is a genetic trait Biome reports in its body traits panel: An IRF4 marker is linked to having more or fewer freckles.

Category
Body traits
Markers
IRF4 rs12203592
Strength of evidence
High for an additive freckling association in European-ancestry 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.

Biome DNA test

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