Adaptive developmental plasticity in methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T polymorphism limits its frequency in South Indians

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 3045-3050

  Naushad, Shaik Mohammad ^a   Krishnaprasad, Chintakindi ^b   Devi, Akella Radha Rama ^c  

^a SASTRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics   (India)

^c Rainbow Children's Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

Adaptive developmental plasticity; Dietary folate; Homocysteine; Methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); HOMOCYSTEINE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2);

ADAPTIVE DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; PLASTICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECURRENT PREGNANCY LOSS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH INDIAN; VERY ELDERLY; ALLELE; BLOOD; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905689715     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-014-3163-0     Document Type: Article

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