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Disease lactose intolerance
Phenotype C0022951|lactose intolerance
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PubMedID- 22860690 Background: symptoms of lactose intolerance are often attributed to lactose malabsorption but, as this relationship has not been demonstrated when a small dose of lactose similar to that contained in one cup of milk is ingested by intolerant patients, psychological factors may play a role in altered symptom perception.
PubMedID- 21872088 These disorders may be congenital or acquired and include cystic fibrosis and shwachman-diamond syndrome; the rare congenital lactase deficiency; glucose-galactose malabsorption; sucrase-isomaltase deficiency; adult-type hypolactasia leading to acquired lactose intolerance.
PubMedID- 23328304 Further evaluation of the test as a noninvasive diagnosis of hypolactasia is ongoing in patients with lactose intolerance.
PubMedID- 20499001 In most mammals, lactase activity declines on the intestinal wall after weaning, characterizing primary hypolactasia that provokes symptoms of lactose intolerance.

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