TraitHigh for uric acid level in European-ancestry cohorts
Uric acid level tendency (SLC2A9)
Uric acid level tendency (SLC2A9) is a genetic trait Biome reports in its weight & metabolism panel: Each G copy is linked to lower uric acid, with an average effect about twice as large in women as in men. This DNA result cannot measure your level or diagnose or rule out gout.
- Category
- Weight & metabolism
- Markers
- SLC2A9 (GLUT9) rs7442295
- Strength of evidence
- High for uric acid level 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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