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TraitSupported for a female-specific association in European-ancestry cohorts; no external replication

Recognizing an orange scent

Recognizing an orange scent is a genetic trait Biome reports in its taste & smell panel: A marker in the ADCY2 region is linked to how easily you identify an orange scent.

Category
Taste & smell
Markers
ADCY2 intron marker rs116058752
Strength of evidence
Supported for a female-specific association in European-ancestry cohorts; no external replication
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.

Biome DNA test

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