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20675712
TITLE
The perception of quinine taste intensity is associated with common genetic variants in a bitter receptor cluster on chromosome 12.
ABSTRACT
The perceived taste intensities of quinine HCl, caffeine, sucrose octaacetate (SOA) and propylthiouracil (PROP) solutions were examined in 1457 twins and their siblings. Previous heritability modeling of these bitter stimuli indicated a common genetic factor for quinine, caffeine and SOA (22-28%), as well as separate specific genetic factors for PROP (72%) and quinine (15%). To identify the genes involved, we performed a genome-wide association study with the same sample as the modeling analysis, genotyped for approximately 610,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). For caffeine and SOA, no SNP association reached a genome-wide statistical criterion. For PROP, the peak association was within TAS2R38 (rs713598, A49P, P = 1.6 × 10(-104)), which accounted for 45.9% of the trait variance. For quinine, the peak association was centered in a region that contains bitter receptor as well as salivary protein genes and explained 5.8% of the trait variance (TAS2R19, rs10772420, R299C, P = 1.8 × 10(-15)). We confirmed this association in a replication sample of twins of similar ancestry (P = 0.00001). The specific genetic factor for the perceived intensity of PROP was identified as the gene previously implicated in this trait (TAS2R38). For quinine, one or more bitter receptor or salivary proline-rich protein genes on chromosome 12 have alleles which affect its perception but tight linkage among very similar genes precludes the identification of a single causal genetic variant.
DATE PUBLISHED
2010 Nov 01
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
entrez 2010/08/03 06:00
pubmed 2010/08/03 06:00
medline 2011/02/11 06:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Reed DR Reed Danielle R DR Monell Chemical Senses Center, 3500 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. reed@monell.org
Zhu G Zhu Gu G
Breslin PA Breslin Paul A S PA
Duke FF Duke Fujiko F FF
Henders AK Henders Anjali K AK
Campbell MJ Campbell Megan J MJ
Montgomery GW Montgomery Grant W GW
Medland SE Medland Sarah E SE
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG
Wright MJ Wright Margaret J MJ
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 19
ISSUE: 21
TITLE: Human molecular genetics
ISOABBREVIATION: Hum Mol Genet
YEAR: 2010
MONTH: Nov
DAY: 01
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Internet
ISSN: 1460-2083
ISSNTYPE: Electronic
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Hum Mol Genet
COUNTRY: England
ISSNLINKING: 0964-6906
NLMUNIQUEID: 9208958
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
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GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
R01 DC004698 NIDCD NIH HHS United States
R03 DC003509 NIDCD NIH HHS United States
DC004698 NIDCD NIH HHS United States
DC02995 NIDCD NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12
Genetic Variation
Humans
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Quinine
Taste Buds metabolism
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
REGISTRYNUMBER NAMEOFSUBSTANCE
A7V27PHC7A Quinine
OTHER ID's