TraitModerate
Uric-acid clearance & gout risk (ABCG2)
Uric-acid clearance & gout risk (ABCG2) is a genetic trait Biome reports in its health risks panel: An ABCG2 version is linked to higher blood uric acid, a waste product that can form crystals in joints.
- 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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