Vitamin B-12 Status during Pregnancy and Child's IQ at Age 8: A Mendelian Randomization Study in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Bonilla, Carolina ^a   Lawlor, Debbie A ^a   Taylor, Amy E ^a   Gunnell, David J ^a   Ben Shlomo, Yoav ^a   Ness, Andrew R ^a   Timpson, Nicholas J ^a   Pourcain, Beate St ^a   Ring, Susan M ^a   Emmett, Pauline M ^a   Smith, A David ^b   Refsum, Helga ^b,c   Pennell, Craig E ^d   Brion, Marie Jo ^a,d   Smith, George Davey ^a   Lewis, Sarah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FUT2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TCN2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FUT2 GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROGENY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TCN2 GENE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CHILD; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; PARENTS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREGNANCY; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 84870772936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051084     Document Type: Article

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