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Smell and taste

The one axis you can check on yourself: variants that change the perception rather than the odds.

Why this topic Everything else here is a probability. This is the part a reader can test at dinner.

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Variants that share a paper with this

Counted in Europe PMC, where the title or abstract names both this topic and that rsID. The number is papers, not evidence of a cause.

rs713598

TAS2R38

Bitter taste perception (PTC/PROP tasting)

14 papers →

rs1726866

TAS2R38

Bitter taste perception (TAS2R38 position 262)

12 papers →

rs10246939

TAS2R38

Bitter taste perception (TAS2R38 position 296)

9 papers →

rs1801133

MTHFR

Folate metabolism (MTHFR C677T)

1 paper →

rs6025

F5

Blood clotting risk (Factor V Leiden)

1 paper →

How this was counted

Europe PMC, title and abstract only, searched for “bitter taste perception”, “olfactory receptor”, “specific anosmia”, “taste perception” alongside each published rsID. Full text was not counted: it returns every paper with an rsID buried in a supplementary table. Recounted monthly.