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Macular degeneration (AMD) risk

Macular degeneration (AMD) risk is a genetic trait Biome reports in its health risks panel: Your combined CFH and ARMS2 risk-allele count, the two strongest common genetic factors in age-related macular degeneration.

Category: Health risks
Markers: CFH rs1061170 (Y402H), ARMS2/HTRA1 rs10490924
Strength of evidence: High

Genes

CFH
ARMS2
HTRA1

Markers (rsIDs)

rs1061170
rs10490924

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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