60% of GenePlanet's team has a lower than average risk to develop diabetes type 2.
The female part of our team has an average risk for breast cancer.
Some children who were breastfed have a higher IQ than the rest, because of their genetic variations. All members of GenePlanet's team were breastfed, however two of our members do not have a polymorphism that increases their IQ if they were breastfed.
Around 20 percent of people cannot taste a bitter flavour in vegetables like cabbage and broccoli and even taste beer and wine differently. Twenty-seven percent of us cannot taste bitter flavours.
GenePlanet's physician and programme developer are lactose intolerant.
Only genes are responsible for the colour of your eyes. One third of GenePlanet's team have blue eyes.
About half of us have typical risk for hypertension (high blood pressure). The rest of us have either increased or decreased risk.
Genetic variation plays an important role in asthma development. Twenty-seven percent of us have a slightly increased risk of asthma development.