Vitamin A deficiency due to genetic variation

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by admin in Buzz

Researchers found that a genetic variation is responsible for lack of vitamin A in about 50% of British women.
Dr. Georg Lietz and his team from Newcastle University in England report that about 50% of women had genetic variation which was responsible in preventing convertion of beta-carotene to vitamin A.
Georg Lietz and his team’s study was [...]