Threshold distributions of phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) in the Chinese population

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 855, Issue , 1998, Pages 810-812

  Guo, Sun Wei ^a,e   Shen, Fu Min ^b   Wang, Yue Dong ^c   Zheng, Chang Jiang ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENYLTHIOUREA;

ADULT; CHILD; CHINESE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASTE ACUITY;

EID: 0032459091     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10664.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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