Heritable variation in food preferences and their contribution to obesity

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 373-387

  Reed, Danielle R ^a   Bachmanov, Alexander A ^b   Beauchamp, Gary K ^b   Tordoff, Michael G ^b   Price, R Arien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dietary fat intake; Food preferences; Obesity; Saccharin; Sweet; Taste

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; FAMILY STUDY; FAT INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; OBESITY; REVIEW; RODENT; TWINS;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DISEASES IN TWINS; FOOD PREFERENCES; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; OBESITY; RODENTIA; TASTE; TWIN STUDIES; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0030778912     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025692031673     Document Type: Review

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