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Re:They Thrive on All-Meat Diet (1929) by virtuallynathan on Saturday February 16, 2019 @09:17AM (#19178633)
AFAIK, none of these studies have been done on humans.
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Re:They Thrive on All-Meat Diet (1929) by druidcz on Saturday February 16, 2019 @03:42PM (#19180819)
The popular article where I read about it referenced: [1] [2]. I guess it is a quite recent finding. But I am no biologist to judge.

[1] Okerblom J., Varki A.: Biochemical, Cellular, Physiological, and Pathological Consequences of Human Loss of N-Glycolylneuraminic Acid, ChemBioChem 18, 1155, 2017, DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201700077

[2] Peri S. et al.: Phylogenetic Distribution of CMP-Neu5Ac Hydroxylase (CMAH), the Enzyme Synthetizing the Proinflammatory Human Xenoantigen Neu5Gc, Genome Biology and Evolution, 2018, DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evx251

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