Maternal DNA hypomethylation and congenital heart defects

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 69-76

  Chowdhury, Shimul ^a   Cleves, Mario A ^a   MacLeod, Stewart L ^a   James, S Jill ^a   Zhao, Weizhi ^a   Hobbs, Charlotte A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital heart defects; DNA methylation; Folate; LINE 1; Maternal biomarkers

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS 1; NUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; EATING; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MOTHERS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79851507335     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.20761     Document Type: Article

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