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[Genetic risk factors of neural tube defects].
Medycyna wieku rozwojowego - 1 Jan 2000
Sliwerska Elzbieta, Szpecht-Potocka Agnieszka
Abstract excerpt
Neural tube defects (NTDs) are a group of diseases caused by a failure of closure of the neural tube. Its aetiology contains both environmental and genetic factors. NTDs have a polygenic background. Genes, which are linked with NTDs occurrence, are both directly and indirectly connected with controlling the process of closure of the neural tube. Ones of those are genes of metabolism of folic acid as MTHFR, MTR,...
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