Genetic variants in the FADS gene cluster are associated with arachidonic acid concentrations of human breast milk at 1.5 and 6 mo postpartum and influence the course of milk dodecanoic, tetracosenoic, and trans-9-octadecenoic acid concentrations over the duration of lactation

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 382-391

  Lattka, Eva ^a   Rzehak, Peter ^a,b,c   Szabó, Éva ^c   Jakobik, Viktoria ^c   Weck, Melanie ^d   Weyermann, Maria ^d   Grallert, Harald ^a   Rothenbacher, Dietrich ^e   Heinrich, Joachim ^a   Brenner, Hermann ^d   Decsi, Tamás ^c   Illig, Thomas ^a   Koletzko, Berthold ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^d GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; ARACHIDONIC ACID; CIS 15 TETRACOSENOIC ACID; ELAIDIC ACID; ERUCIC ACID; LAURIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LACTATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATERNAL NUTRITION; PUERPERIUM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; ARACHIDONIC ACID; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, MONOUNSATURATED; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LACTATION; LAURIC ACIDS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MILK, HUMAN; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; STEARIC ACIDS;

EID: 79251469733     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.110.004515     Document Type: Article

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