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Brief Communication

Nature Genetics 34, 143–144 (1 June 2003) | doi:10.1038/ng1160

Different noses for different people

Idan Menashe , Orna Man , Doron Lancet & Yoav Gilad

Of more than 1,000 human olfactory receptor genes, more than half seem to be pseudogenes. We investigated whether the most recent of these disruptions might still segregate with the intact form by genotyping 51 candidate genes in 189 ethnically diverse humans.