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[Molecular diagnosis and frequencies of primary hypolactasia in populations of RUSSIA and neighboring countries].
Molekuliarnaia biologiia - 1 Jan 2000
Borinskaia S A, Rebrikov D V, Nefedova V V, Kofiadi I A, Sokolova M V, Kolchina E V, Kulikova E A, Chernyshov V N, Kutsev S I, Polonikov A V, Ivanov V P, Kozlov A I, Iankovskiĭ N K
Abstract excerpt
The digestion of the milk sugar (lactose) is observed every normal child but not in every adult. The decreased lactase synthesis in some adults results in problems with digestion of the whole milk (primary hypolactasy). An association of lactase activity in adults with carrying of the allele T within the polymorphism C/T-13910 located upstream of the lactase gene and 100% association of hypolactasy with the...
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