Genetics of Lactase Persistence and Lactose Intolerance

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2003, Pages 197-219

  Swallow, Dallas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developmental decline; Functional DNA element; Milk; Polymorphism; Population distribution

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSIDE; GLYCOSYLCERAMIDASE; LACTASE; MESSENGER RNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PLANT GLYCOSIDE;

ALLELE; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 2Q; CONGENITAL ALACTASIA; CONGENITAL DISORDER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE BIOPSY; INTESTINE CELL; INTESTINE CRYPT; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; LACTOSE TOLERANCE; LIVESTOCK; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MILK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMALL INTESTINE; SOLAR RADIATION;

GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LACTASE; LACTOSE; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0347416709     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.37.110801.143820     Document Type: Review

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