Folate and choline interrelationships: Metabolic and potential health implications

Folate in Health and Disease, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 449-465

  Caudill, Marie A ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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