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Infant C677T MTHFR polymorphism and severe mental retardation.
Birth defects research. Part A, Clinical and molecular teratology - 1 Jan 2007
Shaw Gary M, Jelliffe-Pawlowski Laura, Nelson Verne, Zhu Huiping, Harris John A, Finnell Richard H
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BACKGROUND: We investigated whether infants with homozygous genotype TT of the MTHFR gene were at increased risk of severe mental retardation. METHODS: One hundred children with severe mental retardation (cases) were investigated from a large geographic-based study of infants born in California in 1992-1993. Cases were compared to 743 randomly selected nonmalformed control infants born in California during...
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