Thymidylate synthase repeat polymorphisms and risk of neural tube defects in a population from the northern United Kingdom

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 483-485

  Wilding, Craig S ^a   Relton, Caroline L ^a,b   Sutton, Matthew J ^a   Jonas, Pat A ^a,c   Lynch, Sally Ann ^d   Tawn, E Janet ^a   Burn, John ^d  

^a WESTLAKES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c WEST CUMBERLAND HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Folate; NTD; Polymorphism; Thymidylate synthase

Indexed keywords

DNA; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPINA BIFIDA; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE GENE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FATHERS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHERS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RISK FACTORS; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE;

EID: 3242886458     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20038     Document Type: Article

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