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IN I950, at the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on the origin and evolution of man, Mourant commented: “It is most important that more new markers be sought and found for the human chromosomes.” As an example of a possible new marker he remarked that: “One person out of four fails to smell hydrogen cyanide, a proportion suggesting a balanced polymorphism”1.
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BROWN, K., ROBINETTE, R. No Simple Pattern of Inheritance in Ability to smell Solutions of Cyanide. Nature 215, 406–408 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215406b0
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