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Lactase persistence genotyping: rapid detection of seven sequence variants in a single tube with melting curve analyses.
Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine - 1 Sept 2014
Strand Harald, Sørensen Liv Karin, Ingebretsen Ole Christian
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BACKGROUND: Lactase persistence is an inherited autosomal dominant trait that confers the ability to digest lactose after weaning. Lactose persistence is caused by single nucleotide variants in a regulatory element for the lactase gene (LCT). In Europeans, lactase persistence is associated with the nucleotide variant LCT -13910C>T. Ethnic groups from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula have other lactase persistence...
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