Pineapple smell identification (rs669453)
Pineapple smell identification (rs669453) is a genetic trait Biome reports in its taste & smell panel: In one 2025 study of four groups of adults with European ancestry, this marker was linked to how often people picked pineapple in a four-choice smell test. Each A copy was linked to higher odds of picking the correct answer, but a separate study has not repeated the result.
- Category
- Taste & smell
- Markers
- 11q12.1 OR5-family olfactory-receptor cluster · rs669453
- Strength of evidence
- Supported for one European-ancestry meta-analysis; no external replication and causal gene unresolved
- DNA-test coverage
- If covered
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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