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Genetic diversity of lactase persistence in East African populations.

BMC research notes - 4 Jan 2016

Hassan Hisham Y, van Erp Anke, Jaeger Martin, Tahir Hanan, Oosting Marije, Joosten Leo A B, Netea Mihai G

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BACKGROUND: The expression of lactase which digests lactose from milk in humans is generally lost after weaning, but selected mutations influencing the promoter of the lactase gene have spread into the human populations. This is considered a classical example of gene-culture co-evolution, and several studies suggested that the lactase gene has been under strong directional evolutionary selective pressure in the...

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PMID: 26728963
DOI: 10.1186/s13104-015-1833-1
PMCID: PMC4700599

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