Hunting for the LCT-13910∗T allele between the middle neolithic and the middle ages suggests its absence in dairying LBK people entering the Kuyavia region in the 8th millennium BP

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Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Witas, Henryk W ^a   Płoszaj, Tomasz ^a   Jêdrychowska Dañska, Krystyna ^a   Witas, Piotr J ^b   Masłowska, Alicja ^a   Jerszyñska, Blandyna ^c   Kozłowski, Tomasz ^b   Osipowicz, Grzegorz ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTASE; GLYCOSYLCERAMIDASE; LACTOSE; MCM6 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 6; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DAIRYING; DNA SEQUENCE; FERTILITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE POOL; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGES; MORTALITY; NEOLITHIC; PHYLOGENY; POLAND; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; CAUCASIAN; EUROPE; GENETICS; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; DAIRYING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LACTASE-PHLORIZIN HYDROLASE; LACTOSE; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE COMPLEX COMPONENT 6; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLAND; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84928962872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122384     Document Type: Article

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