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TraitModerate

Sweet taste sensitivity

Sweet taste sensitivity is a genetic trait Biome reports in its taste & smell panel: How strongly you register sweetness, set partly by a sweet-taste receptor gene.

Category
Taste & smell
Markers
TAS1R3 rs307355
Strength of evidence
Moderate

Genes

Markers (rsIDs)

How Biome reads this

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