Molecular genetics of human lactase deficiencies

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 568-575

  Järvelä, Irma ^a,b   Torniainen, Suvi ^a   Kolho, Kaija Leena ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adult type hypolactasia; Congenital lactase deficiency; Evolution; Gene; Lactase persistence non persistence; Mutation; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

LACTASE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; BLOATING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DAIRY PRODUCT; DIARRHEA; EVOLUTION; FLATULENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BREATH TEST; LACTASE DEFICIENCY; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; LACTOSE TOLERANCE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; CHILD; DOWN-REGULATION; FINLAND; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LACTASE; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 72949097931     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: 13652060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07853890903121033     Document Type: Review

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