Association between dietary intake of folate and MTHFR and MTR genotype with risk of breast cancer

Genetics and Molecular Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 8925-8931

  He, J M ^a   Pu, Y D ^a   Wu, Y J ^a   Qin, R ^a   Zhang, Q J ^a   Sun, Y S ^a   Zheng, W W ^b   Chen, L P ^b  

^a General Hospital of Chinese People's Liberation Army   (China)

^b XINXIANG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Folate; MTHFR; Polymorphism; Vitamin

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; PYRIDOXINE; 5 METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE HOMOCYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); MTHFR PROTEIN, HUMAN; MTR PROTEIN, HUMAN; VITAMIN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST CANCER; CALORIC INTAKE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MTHFR GENE; MTR GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TUMOR GENE; BREAST TUMOR; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

5-METHYLTETRAHYDROFOLATE-HOMOCYSTEINE S-METHYLTRANSFERASE; ADULT; ALLELES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B 6; VITAMINS;

EID: 84908510175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16765680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4238/2014.October.31.7     Document Type: Article

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