Latitude, sunshine, and human lactase phenotype distributions may contribute to geographic patterns of modern disease: the inflammatory bowel disease model

Countries with high lactase nonpersistence (LNP) or low lactase persistence (LP) populations have lower rates of some “western” diseases, mimicking the effects of sunshine and latitude. Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ie, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, is putatively also influenced by sun...

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Autores principales: Szilagyi, Andrew, Leighton, Henry, Burstein, Barry, Xue, Xiaoqing
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2014
Materias:
Hypothesis
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4070862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24971037
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S59838

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4070862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24971037
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S59838

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