Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase C677T and reduced folate carrier 80 G>A polymorphisms are associated with an increased risk of conotruncal heart defects

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1455-1461

  Gong, Dingxu ^a   Gu, Haiyong ^a,b   Zhang, Yujian ^c   Gong, Jie ^b   Nie, Yu ^a   Wang, Jue ^a   Zhang, Hui ^d   Liu, Ruiping ^d   Hu, Shengshou ^a   Zhang, Hao ^a  

^a FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

^b JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d THE AFFILIATED CHANGZHOU NO 2 PEOPLE S HOSPITAL OF NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Genetic polymorphisms; MTHFR; RFC

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); ADENINE; ADENOSINE; CYTOSINE; FOLIC ACID; GUANINE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; NICOTINAMIDE METHYLTRANSFERASE; REDUCED FOLATE CARRIER; TRANSCOBALAMIN;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONOTRUNCAL HEART DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE PRECURSOR A GENE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE GENE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; TRANSPOSITION OF GREAT ARTERY; VITAMIN METABOLISM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REDUCED FOLATE CARRIER PROTEIN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 84867755970     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2011-0759     Document Type: Article

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