Folate in pregnancy and imprinted gene and repeat element methylation in the offspring

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 94-99

  Haggarty, Paul ^a   Hoad, Gwen ^a   Campbell, Doris M ^b   Horgan, Graham W ^c   Piyathilake, Chandrika ^d   McNeill, Geraldine ^b  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; GENOMIC DNA; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN B;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GENE; GENOME IMPRINTING; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IMPRINTED GENE; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; MATERNAL NUTRITION; METHYLATION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; DIET; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DNA; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FOLIC ACID; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; LINEAR MODELS; LONG INTERSPERSED NUCLEOTIDE ELEMENTS; MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SNRNP CORE PROTEINS;

EID: 84871943160     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: 19383207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.112.042572     Document Type: Article

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