A worldwide correlation of lactase persistence phenotype and genotypes

Itan, Yuval; Jones, Bryony; Ingram, C; M. Swallow, Dallas; Thomas, Mark

doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-36

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A worldwide correlation of lactase persistence phenotype and genotypes

Published in BMC Evolutionary Biology • Jan 1, 2010

Authors:

Yuval Itan

Bryony Jones

C Ingram

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The ability of adult humans to digest the milk sugar lactose - lactase persistence - is a dominant Mendelian trait that has been a subject of extensive genetic, medical and evolutionary research. Lactase persistence is common in people of European ancestry as well as some African, Middle...

Subject

Biology

Persistence (discontinuity)

Phenotype

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