Association between maternal COMT gene polymorphisms and fetal neural tube defects risk in a Chinese population

Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 22-29

  Liu, Jufen ^a,b   Wang, Linlin ^a,b   Fu, Yunting ^a,b   Li, Zhiwen ^a,b   Zhang, Yali ^a,b   Zhang, Le ^a,b   Jin, Lei ^a,b   Ye, Rongwei ^a,b   Ren, Aiguo ^a,b  

^a BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

COMT; Gene environment interaction; Neural tube defects; Single nucleotide polymorphism; Tea

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE GENE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FOOD INTAKE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL BLOOD; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; TEA; YOUNG ADULT;

COMT; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TEA;

ADULT; ANENCEPHALY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; CHINA; FEMALE; FETUS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POLYPHENOLS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; TEA;

EID: 84892882849     PISSN: 15420752     EISSN: 15420760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdra.23208     Document Type: Article

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