Simultaneous genotyping of the three lactose tolerance-linked polymorphisms LCT -13907C>G, LCT -13910C>T and LCT -13915T>G with Pyrosequencing™ technology

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-84

  Nilsson, Torbjörn K ^a   Olsson, Lovisa A ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adult hypolactasia; Africans; Arabs; Lactose tolerance; Pyrosequencing

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SYNTHESIS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LACTASE DEFICIENCY; LACTOSE TOLERANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AFRICA; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LACTASE; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; MIDDLE EAST; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 38349011229     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2008.015     Document Type: Article

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