Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene polymorphisms in egyptian women with unexplained recurrent pregnancy loss

Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 887-892

  Settin, Ahmad ^a,b   Elshazli, Rami ^c   Salama, Afrah ^c   Elbaz, Rizk ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Egypt)

^b QASSIM UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c Tanta University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EGYPT; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT PREGNANCY LOSS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK FACTOR; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EGYPT; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84055190849     PISSN: 19450265     EISSN: 19450257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/gtmb.2011.0049     Document Type: Article

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