Adaptation to milk drinking and evolution of lactase persistence in pastoralist goat herders in central-northern Chile
Milk contains lactose as source of energy, which is digested by intestinal lactase, an enzyme that declines after weaning. The genetic trait of lactase persistence (LP) evolved together with the development of milking and pastoralism in the Old World as an adaptation to milk consumption in adults. T...
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University College London (University of London)
2015
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.644421 |