1. Association of single nucleotide polymorphisms with taste and food preferences of the Hungarian general and Roma populations
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Zsigmond Kósa, Róza Ádány, János Sándor, Ali Abbas Mohammad Kurshed, Judit Diószegi, and Péter Pikó
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0301 basic medicine ,Taste ,Roma ,Genotype ,Population ,030209 endocrinology & metabolism ,Single-nucleotide polymorphism ,Biology ,Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ,Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled ,03 medical and health sciences ,Food Preferences ,0302 clinical medicine ,TAS1R3 ,Humans ,Sugar ,education ,General Psychology ,education.field_of_study ,Hungary ,030109 nutrition & dietetics ,Nutrition and Dietetics ,Preference ,Genotype frequency ,Europe ,TAS2R38 ,Demography - Abstract
It is reasonable to suppose that poor diet underlies the unfavorable health status of the Roma population of Europe. Previously in the framework of a complex health survey, fruit and vegetable consumption, quantity of sugar added, salting frequency; bitter, salty, sweet and fat taste preferences were evaluated of Hungarian (HG, n = 410) and Roma (HR, n = 387) populations. In the present study the associations of taste and food preferences with TAS1R3, CD36, SCNN1B, TRPV1, TAS2R38, TAS2R19 and CA6 polymorphisms were tested in the same samples. Genotype frequencies did not differ significantly between the two populations. Although we initially observed associations between certain genetic polymorphisms and taste and food preferences in our study samples, none of the p values remained significant after the multiple test correction. However, some of our results could be considered promising (0.05
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- 2020