Table 1.

Common variants associated with variation taste and ingestive behavior

Tastes	Chromosome	Gene	Influence on Ingestive behavior	Reference
Sweet	1p36	TAS1R2, TAS1R3	Unknown	Nie et al. (2005)41, Nie et al. (2006)40, Scott et al. (2005)31
Umani	1p36	TAS1R1, TAS1R3	Unknown	Scott et al. (2005)31
Bitter	12p13, 7q34, 5p15.31	TAS2Rs: TAS2R38, TAS2R5, TAS2R16	Vegetable avoidance, increased fat and sweet intake, disinhibited eating behavior among women Alcohol dependence	Kim et al. (2003)32 Drewnowski et al. (1997)21 Mennella et al. (2005)33 Timpson et al. (2005)34 Dotson et al. (2008)46 Lin (2005)38, Hinrichs (2006)39