TraitModerate
Uric-acid clearance & gout risk (ABCG2)
Uric-acid clearance & gout risk (ABCG2) is a genetic trait Biome reports in its health risks panel: This DNA result is linked to higher blood uric acid. Higher blood uric acid can raise the chance of gout, but the gout link was stronger in men and was not clear in premenopausal women.
- Category
- Health risks
- Markers
- ABCG2 Q141K · rs2231142 · GRCh38 G>T
- Strength of evidence
- Moderate
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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