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Whissell-Buechy and Amoore1 have reported specific anosmia in humans to two substances, iso-valeric acid and a musk (pentadecalactone), anosmia to the second being inherited as a recessive. They found a difference of incidence in both anosmias between Black and Caucasian subjects.
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COMFORT, A. Odour-Blindness to Musk: Simple Recessive Inheritance. Nature 245, 157 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/245157a0
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