Lactose and lactase - Who is lactose intolerant and why?

Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Volumn 45, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages

  Montgomery, Robert K ^a   Krasinski, Stephen D ^a   Hirschhorn, Joel N ^b   Grand, Richard J ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Lactase phlorizin hydrolase; Phenotype; Single nucleotide polymor phism

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLCERAMIDASE; HYDROLASE; LACTASE; LACTASE PHLORIZIN HYDROLASE; LACTOSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE CELL; INTESTINE VILLUS; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RACE DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; GLYCOSYLCERAMIDASE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; LACTASE; LACTOSE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 38149108283     PISSN: 02772116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPG.0b013e31812e68f6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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