[Thirty years of research on congenital glucose and galactose malabsorption: from phenotype to genotype].

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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 recessive mode, is the consequence of a functional defect of the glucose-sodium cotransporter at the luminal membrane of...

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