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Lactase persistence and lipid pathway selection in the Maasai.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Wagh Kshitij, Bhatia Aatish, Alexe Gabriela, Reddy Anupama, Ravikumar Vijay, Seiler Michael, Boemo Michael, Yao Ming, Cronk Lee, Naqvi Asad, Ganesan Shridar, Levine Arnold J, Bhanot Gyan
Abstract excerpt
The Maasai are a pastoral people in Kenya and Tanzania, whose traditional diet of milk, blood and meat is rich in lactose, fat and cholesterol. In spite of this, they have low levels of blood cholesterol, and seldom suffer from gallstones or cardiac diseases. Field studies in the 1970s suggested that the Maasai have a genetic adaptation for cholesterol homeostasis. Analysis of HapMap 3 data using Fixation Index...
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