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Thyroid hormone activation (bloodstream)

Thyroid hormone activation (bloodstream) is a genetic trait Biome reports in its thyroid panel: Which direction your D1 enzyme shifts the balance between thyroid T4 and active T3 in your bloodstream.

Category
Thyroid
Markers
DIO1 rs2235544
Strength of evidence
Moderate

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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