Global diversity in the TAS2R38 bitter taste receptor: Revisiting a classic evolutionary PROPosal

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Risso, Davide S ^a,b   Mezzavilla, Massimo ^c,d   Pagani, Luca ^b,e   Robino, Antonietta ^c   Morini, Gabriella ^f   Tofanelli, Sergio ^g   Carrai, Maura ^g   Campa, Daniele ^g   Barale, Roberto ^g   Caradonna, Fabio ^h   Gasparini, Paolo ^c   Luiselli, Donata ^b   Wooding, Stephen ⁱ   Drayna, Dennis ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^d SIDRA MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Qatar)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GASTRONOMIC SCIENCES   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; BALANCING SELECTION; BITTER TASTE; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; TASTE;

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; PHENYLTHIOUREA; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; TASTE RECEPTORS, TYPE 2;

DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; PHENYLTHIOUREA; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SELECTION, GENETIC; TASTE;

EID: 84966356381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep25506     Document Type: Article

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