[30 years' work on congenital glucose and galactose malabsorption: from phenotype to genotype].

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[30 years' work on congenital glucose and galactose malabsorption: from phenotype to genotype].

Annales de gastroenterologie et d'hepatologie - 1 Oct 1993

Desjeux J F, Wright E M

Abstract excerpt

Intestinal absorption of glucose plays a key role in water economy as attested by the congenital and selective glucose and galactose malabsorption which is expressed as severe watery diarrhea just after birth, leading to life-threatening dehydration. This syndrome, transmitted on an autosomal rec...

Topics

Galactose
Genotype
Glucose
Humans
Intestinal Absorption
Malabsorption Syndromes
Phenotype

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