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THIS investigation was prompted by the clinical observation of lactose intolerance in five Asian students who were attending a gastroenterological out-patient department for vague abdominal pain associated with intermittent diarrhoea. Lactose intolerance is now a well recognized clinical entity, being more common in asymptomatic negroes1,2 and Australian aborigines3 than in Caucasians.
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DAVIS, A., BOLIN, T. Lactose Intolerance in Asians. Nature 216, 1244–1245 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2161244a0
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