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Evidence compiled by the Personal Genome Project
Gene |
Impact |
Trait |
Summary |
Inheritance |
FUT2 |
Moderate clinical importance, protective |
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This recessive protective variant confers resistance to norovirus (which causes stomach flu). 20% of Caucasians and Africans are homozygous for this variant and are "non-secretors": they do not express ABO blood type antigens in their saliva or mucosal surfaces. Most strains of norovirus bind to these antigens in the gut, and so this non-secretor status confers almost total resistantance to most types of norovirus. There are notable exceptions, some strains of norovirus bind a different target and are equally infectious for secretors and non-secretors. |
recessive |
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