rs713598(C;C)

Possibly unable to taste bitter in some foods.

Magnitude
1.1Minor
Repute
Bad
Frequency
27%Average of 4 populations
On SNPedia
rs713598(G;G)Minus strand
Gene
TAS2R38

Frequency

Share of people with C;C in each HapMap population.

  • Yoruba (Nigeria)43%
  • European ancestry (Utah)30%
  • Japanese (Tokyo)23%
  • Han Chinese (Beijing)11%

Other genotypes of rs713598

  1. G;GMost notableGoodCan taste bitter.Minor · 1.129% of people
  2. C;GGoodCan taste bitter.Minor · 1.145% of people

All about rs713598

Notes

From SNPedia

Depending on your other SNPs, this might cause the inability to taste the bitterness of phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) and similar molecules in foods (like cabbage and raw broccoli) or drinks (like coffee and dark beers). That would make cabbage etc. taste horribly bland and boring. On the other hand, fruit from the tropical bignay tree would taste unpleasantly bitter to you instead of sweet. You might eat less healthily.

Source and license

Adapted from rs713598(G;G) on SNPedia, using a snapshot taken October 16, 2026. SNPedia content is shared under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US, and this page is shared under the same license.

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