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Comparing sensory experience in bitter taste perception of phenylthiocarbamide within and between human twins and singletons: intrapair differences in thresholds and genetic variance estimates.
Anthropologischer Anzeiger; Bericht uber die biologisch-anthropologische Literatur - 1 Jun 2008
Sharma Krishan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Quantitative genetic studies revealed that not all of the phenotypic variance in PTC taste perception is heritable. AIM: To study quantitative variations in PTC tasting ability in twins and to estimate heritability of PTC taste perception on the taste of twin data on males and females sexes separately. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The data for PTC taste sensitivity following the classic method of Harris &...
Topics
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- India
- Male
- Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled
- Sex Factors
- Social Environment
- Taste Threshold
- Twins, Dizygotic
- Twins, Monozygotic
- Taste Receptors, Type 2