A genome-wide study on the perception of the odorants androstenone and galaxolide

Chemical Senses

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 541-552

  Knaapila, Antti ^a,c   Zhu, Gu ^b   Medland, Sarah E ^b   Wysocki, Charles J ^a   Montgomery, Grant W ^b   Martin, Nicholas G ^b   Wright, Margaret J ^b   Reed, Danielle R ^a  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Androstenone; Galaxolide; Genetic twin modeling; Genome wide association study; Heritability; Twins

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENONE; EUGENOL; GALAXOLIDE; PENTYL ACETATE; STEROID HORMONE; THIOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OR7D4 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; ROSE; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANDROSTERONE; BENZOPYRANS; CHILD; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; ODORS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SIBLINGS; SMELL; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863862960     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjs008     Document Type: Article

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