Vitamin D, folate, and potential early lifecycle environmental origin of significant adult phenotypes

Evolution, Medicine and Public Health

Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 69-91

  Lucock, Mark ^a   Yates, Zoë ^b   Martin, Charlotte ^a   Choi, Jeong Hwa ^a   Boyd, Lyndell ^a   Tang, Sa ^a   Naumovski, Nenad ^a   Furst, John ^b   Roach, Paul ^a   Jablonski, Nina ^c   Chaplin, George ^c   Veysey, Martin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Folate; Hypertension; Insulin; Melanization; Photoperiod; Pigmentation; Serine hydroxymethyltransferase; Solar cycle; Thymidylate synthase; UV; UV R exposure; VDR; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; FOLIC ACID; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN; THIOL; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR;

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIETARY INTAKE; ECOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME SIZE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METABOLOME; NUTRIGENOMICS; OSSIFICATION; PHOTOPERIODICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VITAMIN INTAKE;

EID: 84962758062     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20506201     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emph/eou013     Document Type: Article

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