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TraitSupported in European-ancestry studies

How likely you are to smell asparagus in urine

How likely you are to smell asparagus in urine is a genetic trait Biome reports in its taste & smell panel: This result estimates how likely you are to notice the smell after eating asparagus. It does not show whether your body makes the smell.

Category
Taste & smell
Markers
Olfactory-receptor region rs4481887
Strength of evidence
Supported in European-ancestry studies

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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