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.
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