People insensitive to quinine's bitter taste may have varied absorption, metabolization capabilities: Study
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People insensitive to quinine's bitter taste may have varied absorption, metabolization capabilities: Study
Some people find quinine to be bitter while others can drink it like water. Now, scientists from the Monell Center and collaborators report that individual differences in how people experience quinine's bitterness are related to underlying differences in their genes.The findings, published online in the journal Human Molecular Genetics, demonstrate that genetic variation in regions of DNA that encode bitter taste receptors predicts a person's perception of bitterness from quinine.
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