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Article: The genetics of lactose intolerance. (Colitis Club Quarterly).
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- Medical Update
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Researchers hope their new findings might someday lead to a more accurate test and better treatment for lactose intolerance, an inability to digest the principal sugar--lactose--in milk. A team of Finnish and American biologists report that they have identified two single-unit DNA changes that correlate strongly with the common disorder. Dr. Leena Peltonen and her associates at the UCLA School of Medicine collaborated with ...
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... ... galactose and glucose, after weaning. Lactose intolerance causes gut and a range of systemic ... closely with hypolactasia, and thus lactose intolerance. The symptoms of lactose intolerance are caused by gases and toxins produced ...
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