Genetic variation and lactose intolerance: detection methods and clinical implications.

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The maturational decline in lactase activity renders most of the world's adult human population intolerant of excessive consumption of milk and other dairy products. In conditions of primary or secondary lactase deficiency, the lactose sugars in milk pass through the gastrointestinal tract undigested or are partially digested by enzymes produced by intestinal bacterial flora to yield short chain fatty acids,...

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