Profiling single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across intracellular folate metabolic pathway in healthy Indians

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 274-279

  Ghodke, Yogita ^a   Chopra, Arvind ^b   Shintre, Pooja ^c   Puranik, Amrutesh ^a   Joshi, Kalpana ^c   Patwardhan, Bhushan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^b Center for Rheumatic Diseases   (India)

^c SINHGAD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

Author keywords

Folate metabolism; Indians; Methotrexate (MTX); Pharmacogenomics; Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); FOLIC ACID; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FOLATE METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHARMACOGENOMICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; INDIA; METABOLISM;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 79952949739     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: 09715916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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