The origins of lactase persistence in Europe.

Lactase persistence (LP) is common among people of European ancestry, but with the exception of some African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian groups, is rare or absent elsewhere in the world. Lactase gene haplotype conservation around a polymorphism strongly associated with LP in Europeans (-13,91...

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Main Authors: Yuval Itan, Adam Powell, Mark A Beaumont, Joachim Burger, Mark G Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-08-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/19714206/?tool=EBI