TraitModerate for a small European-ancestry blood vitamin C tendency; not an absorption or supplement-response result
Vitamin C absorption
Vitamin C absorption is a genetic trait Biome reports in its vitamins & nutrients panel: An SLC23A1 version is linked to baseline or lower vitamin C in your blood.
- Category
- Vitamins & nutrients
- Markers
- SLC23A1 rs33972313 (GRCh38 C>T; coding G>A)
- Strength of evidence
- Moderate for a small European-ancestry blood vitamin C tendency; not an absorption or supplement-response result
- 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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