Lactase haplotype diversity in the old world

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 160-172

  Hollox, Edward J ^a   Poulter, Mark ^a   Zvarik, Marek ^b   Ferak, Vladimir ^b   Krause, Amanda ^c   Jenkins, Trefor ^c   Saha, Nilmani ^d   Kozlov, Andrew I ^e   Swallow, Dallas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e ArctAn C Innovative Laboratory   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; LACTASE;

AFRICA; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTESTINE; MILK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0035159157     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/316924     Document Type: Article

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