Genetic basis of olfactory cognition: Extremely high level of DNA sequence polymorphism in promoter regions of the human olfactory receptor genes revealed using the 1000 Genomes Project dataset

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Ignatieva, Elena V ^a,b   Levitsky, Victor G ^a,b   Yudin, Nikolay S ^a,b   Moshkin, Mikhail P ^a,b   Kolchanov, Nikolay A ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

1000 Genomes project; Olfactory cognition; Olfactory receptor gene; Promoter; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897939199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00247     Document Type: Article

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