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 whole-genome test reads this from one saliva sample, alongside all 3.2 billion letters of your DNA.
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