Polymorphisms in mthfd1 gene and susceptibility to neural tube defects: A case- control study in a chinese han population with relatively low folate levels

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 21, Issue , 2015, Pages 2630-2637

  Wu, Jian ^a   Bao, Yihua ^b   Lu, Xiaolin ^b   Wu, Lihua ^b   Zhang, Ting ^b   Guo, Jin ^b   Yang, Jian ^b  

^a CAPITAL UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS   (China)

^b CAPITAL INSTITUTE OF PEDIATRICS   (China)

Author keywords

Folic Acid Deficiency; Neural Tube Defects; Polymorphism; Single Nucleotide

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; GENOMIC DNA; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE; MINOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; MTHFD1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMILUMINESCENCE IMMUNOASSAY; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MTHFD1 GENE; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STILLBIRTH; BIOLOGY; BRAIN; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; ODDS RATIO; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL;

ALLELES; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FETUS; FOLIC ACID; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE DEHYDROGENASE (NADP); MINOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK FACTORS; STILLBIRTH;

EID: 84940925439     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/MSM.895155     Document Type: Article

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