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.
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