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Lactase persistence in Tunisia as a result of admixture with other Mediterranean populations

BACKGROUND: The ability to digest lactose after weaning, namely, lactase persistence (LP), is encoded by polymorphisms in the MCM6 gene and varies widely in frequency among different human populations. Although, evolution of LP-related genetic variants was investigated in many groups of Sub-Saharan...

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Autores principales: Ben Halima, Yosra, Kefi, Rym, Sazzini, Marco, Giuliani, Cristina, De Fanti, Sara, Nouali, Chokri, Nagara, Majdi, Mengozzi, Giacomo, Elouej, Sahar, Abid, Abdelmajid, Jamoussi, Henda, Chouchane, Lotfi, Romeo, Giovanni, Abdelhak, Sonia, Luiselli, Donata
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5571577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28855970
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12263-017-0573-3