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TraitHigh with ancestry caveat

Lactose tolerance

Lactose tolerance is a genetic trait Biome reports in its food & drink panel: Whether you likely keep digesting the lactose in milk and dairy as an adult.

Category
Food & drink
Markers
MCM6/LCT rs4988235
Strength of evidence
High with ancestry caveat

Genes

Markers (rsIDs)

How Biome reads this

Biome's at-home DNA test reads this directly from one saliva sample, alongside 650,000+ other markers.

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