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Interaction of folate and homocysteine pathway genotypes evaluated in susceptibility to neural tube defects (NTD) in a German population.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2001
Richter B, Stegmann K, Röper B, Böddeker I, Ngo E T, Koch M C
Abstract excerpt
Neural tube defects (NTD) are likely to result from an interaction of several genes and environmental factors. Because periconceptional folate intake reduces the NTD risk in the fetus, and because mothers of children with NTD showed elevated plasma homocysteine levels, gene polymorphisms of the folate and homocysteine pathway, such as 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) 677C-->T, MTHFR 1298A-->C and...
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