Background: The rise in nutrition-related morbidity and mortality requires public health
intervention programs targeting nutritional behavior. In addition to socio-economical, socio …

The US NHANES included chemosensory assessments in the 2011–2014 protocol. We
provide an overview of this protocol and 2012 olfactory exam findings. Of the 1818 NHANES …

We assembled genome-wide data from 16 prehistoric Africans. We show that the anciently
divergent lineage that comprises the primary ancestry of the southern African San had a …

Human Evolutionary Genetics is a groundbreaking text which for the first time brings
together molecular genetics and genomics to the study of the origins and movements of …

The ability to taste phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) and 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) is a
polymorphic trait mediated by the TAS2R38 bitter taste receptor gene. It has long been …

Taste sensitivity to PROP varies greatly among individuals and is associated with
polymorphisms in the bitter receptor gene TAS2R38, and with differences in fungiform …

The ability to taste bitter thiourea compounds, such as phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) and 6-n-
propylthiouracil (PROP), is inherited. Polymorphisms in the bitter-taste receptor TAS2R38 …

In the last several decades, the genetic ability to taste the bitter compound, 6-n-
propyltiouracil (PROP) has attracted considerable attention as a model for understanding …

Polymorphisms in bitter taste receptor gene TAS2R38 alter the ability to sense the intensity
of bitterness of phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) and 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP). Genetic …

Mutational polymorphism in the TAS2R38 bitter taste receptor is a key determinant of
threshold taste detection of isolated compounds, such as phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) and …