Human taste genetics

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 217-235

  Drayna, Dennis ^a  

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

Author keywords

Candidate genes; Chemosensory mechanisms; Phenylthiocarbamide; Sensory variation

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; CYCLIC AMP; CYSTEINE; DNA; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GENE PRODUCT; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; GLUTAMIC ACID; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; ISOLEUCINE; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; PHENYLTHIOUREA; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM ION; PROLINE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; PROTEIN; PROTON; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VALINE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TASTE; TASTE ACUITY; TASTE BUD;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; PHENYLTHIOUREA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS; TASTE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 25844520489     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genom.6.080604.162340     Document Type: Review

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