Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Gene Polymorphism and Childhood Stroke

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 247-249

  Morita, Denise C ^a   Donaldson, Amy ^a   Butterfield, Russell J ^a   Benedict, Susan L ^a   Bale Jr , James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2);

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; STROKE;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIAL DISEASES; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINUS THROMBOSIS, INTRACRANIAL; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; STROKE;

EID: 69849098165     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2009.04.017     Document Type: Article

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