Lactase Non-persistence and Lactose Intolerance

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Bayless, Theodore M ^a,b   Brown, Elizabeth ^c   Paige, David M ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Bloomberg School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution, positive selection; Lactase non persistence; Lactase persistence; Lactose intolerance; Milk drinking

Indexed keywords

LACTASE;

CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DAIRY PRODUCT; DIETARY INTAKE; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FOOD INTAKE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; MILK INTOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RISK; PREGNANCY; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; DIET THERAPY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; METABOLISM; MILK;

ANIMALS; DAIRY PRODUCTS; DOWN-REGULATION; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; LACTASE; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; MILK;

EID: 85017619791     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: 1534312X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-017-0558-9     Document Type: Review

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