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Taste Sensitivity to PTC in 2000 Families

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

G. Gaffuri
G. Gaffuri*
Affiliation:
Istituto di Biologia Generale e Centro di Genetica del C.N.R., Università di Pavia
*
Istituto di Biologia Generale dell'Università, Pavia, Italia

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Taste sensitivity to PTC has been studied on a number of families from the same population, half of which showed in their members evident biological, pathological or degenerative variants. The percentage of non-tasters is of 22% in the healthy sample and of 26% in the loaded one, but this difference does not appear to be statistically significant. The biological loads considered should therefore not influence PTC sensitivity thresholds and taste perception.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , April 1969 , pp. 158 - 165
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1969

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