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[Genetic differences in enzymes of folic acid metabolism in patients with lip-jaw-palate clefts and their relatives].
Mund-, Kiefer- und Gesichtschirurgie : MKG - 1 May 2002
Grunert R R, Braune A, Schnackenberg E, Schloot W, Krause H R
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The effectiveness of folic acid supplementation in the periconceptional period for the prevention of cleft lip/cleft lip and palate (CLP) is contradictorily discussed. Genetically determined variants of enzymes of the folic acid metabolism could be part of the key to success or failure of folate supplementation. A mutation of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene is suspected to be a...
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