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From 'lactose intolerance' to 'lactose nutrition'.
Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition - 1 Jan 2015
Lukito Widjaja, Malik Safarina G, Surono Ingrid S, Wahlqvist Mark L
Abstract excerpt
The concept of lactose intolerance has become embedded in Western medicine and developing economy medicine. It is based on evidence that intestinal lactase activity persists into later childhood and throughout life in only a minority of the world's population, notably northern European-derived populations. These people have the T single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of the rs49882359 allele (C/T), also known as...
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