Rare allelic variants determine folate status in an unsupplemented European population

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 142, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1403-1409

  Pavlíková, Markéta ^a   Sokolová, Jitka ^b   Janoŝíková, Bohumila ^b   Melenovská, Petra ^b   Krupková, Lucie ^b   Zvárová, Jana ^a   Koẑich, Viktor ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ERYTHROCYTE; EUROPE; EXON; FEMALE; FOLATE METABOLISM; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FOLR1 GENE; FOLR2 GENE; FOLR3 GENE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MTHFR GENE; PATHOGENICITY; PCFT GENE; RFC GENE; SPLICING DEFECT;

ADULT; ALLELES; COHORT STUDIES; CZECH REPUBLIC; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866303223     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.112.160549     Document Type: Article

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