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From musk to body odor: Decoding olfaction through genetic variation.
PLoS genetics - 1 Feb 2022
Li Bingjie, Kamarck Marissa L, Peng Qianqian, Lim Fei-Ling, Keller Andreas, Smeets Monique A M, Mainland Joel D, Wang Sijia
Abstract excerpt
The olfactory system combines input from multiple receptor types to represent odor information, but there are few explicit examples relating olfactory receptor (OR) activity patterns to odor perception. To uncover these relationships, we performed genome-wide scans on odor-perception phenotypes for ten odors in 1000 Han Chinese and validated results for six of these odors in an ethnically diverse population (n =...
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