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Does a unique olfactory genome imply a unique olfactory world?

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While effectively doubling the number of known odorant-to-receptor pairings in human olfaction, researchers explain a portion of perceptual variability that stems from genetic variability.

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Figure 1: Different noses are tuned to a common olfactory world.

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  1. Idan Frumin and Noam Sobel are in the Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.,

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  2. Yoav Gilad is in the Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.,

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