Taste Sensitivity to PTC and Incidence of Colour Blindness Among the Schedule Castes of District Mandi, Himachal Pradesh
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PTC taste sensitivity in 146 Chamar and 138 Koli from Dist. Mandi, H.P reveals bimodal distribution of tasters and non-tasters; the incidence of tasters being 71.91% for Koli. There is a non-significant difference in their ability to taste PTC (χ = 1.9080) among Chamar and Koli. The percentage of incidence TASTE SENSITIVITY TO PTC AND INCIDENCE OF COLOUR BLINDNESS January 2003 59 of colour blindness among Kolis has been found to be 2.9% while in the Chamar it is 2.7%, respectively.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006