TraitHigh for a broad European-ancestry eye-color tendency; one marker cannot predict exact color
Eye color
Eye color is a genetic trait Biome reports in its body traits panel: A marker near HERC2 and OCA2 is strongly linked to broad patterns of lighter and darker eye color.
- Category
- Body traits
- Markers
- HERC2 enhancer marker rs12913832 (regulates OCA2)
- Strength of evidence
- High for a broad European-ancestry eye-color tendency; one marker cannot predict exact color
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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