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Evaluation of a novel reverse-hybridization StripAssay for typing DNA variants useful in diagnosis of adult-type hypolactasia.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 1 Jun 2008
Tag Carmen G, Oberkanins Christian, Kriegshäuser Gernot, Ingram Catherine J E, Swallow Dallas M, Gressner Axel M, Ledochowski Maximilian, Weiskirchen Ralf
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Adult-type hypolactasia is a genetically determined inability to digest lactose after weaning. Two single-nucleotide polymorphisms (C-13910T, G-22018A) located upstream of the lactase gene (LCT) within the gene MCM6 are associated with the lactase persistence/non-persistence trait in patients of European descent. Therefore, the genotyping of these SNPs has been established as a diagnostic tool for...
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