Nutri-genetic determinants of neural tube defects in India

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 467-475

  Godbole, Koumudi ^a   Deshmukh, Urmila ^a   Yajnik, Chittaranjan ^a  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Etiopathegenesis; Folic acid; India; Neural tube defects

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; PHENYTOIN; PYRIDOXINE; VALPROIC ACID; WARFARIN; ZINC;

CARBON METABOLISM; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MATERNAL DIABETES MELLITUS; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PYRIDOXINE DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; ZINC DEFICIENCY; GENETICS; NUTRIGENOMICS;

FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; INDIA; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; NUTRIGENOMICS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 66949142234     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: 00196061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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