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THE tasting thresholds to phenyl-thio-carbamide (PTC) and the clinical characteristics of the thyroid gland were determined in 88 women and 70 men belonging to the Pewenche branch of the Araucanian Indians. Most of the subjects were born (and all of them lived) in the geographically isolated Pedregoso Valley in the Chilean Andes, 38° 32′ S. The total population of the valley is of about 1,000 persons.
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COVARRUBIAS, E., BARZELATTO, J., STEVENSON, C. et al. Taste Sensitivity to Phenyl-thio-carbamide and Endemic Goitre among Pewenche Indians. Nature 205, 1036 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2051036a0
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