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Taste Sensitivity to Phenylthiocarbamide in a Group of 50 Families from Latium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Giancarlo Alciati*
Affiliation:
Istituto di Antropologia dell'Università, Padova
*
Istituto di Antropologia dell'Università, Padova, Italy

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On the basis of the distribution of taste sensitivity to PTC in 50 parents-child(children) family groups, two different hypotheses are suggested for the mode of inheritance of this trait.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1971

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