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Screening for methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase C677T and A1298C polymorphisms in Indian patients with idiopathic mental retardation.
Nutritional neuroscience - 1 Feb 2008
Dutta Samikshan, Das Bhowmik Aneek, Sinha Swagata, Chattopadhyay Anindita, Mukhopadhyay Kanchan
Abstract excerpt
Although genetic, nutritional, and environmental factors have been found to aggravate mental retardation in approximately 1% of individuals, no cause is known till date. In this study, two genetic polymorphisms in methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR), C677T (rs#1801133) and A1298C (rs#1801131), have been investigated in idiopathic mental retardation (IMR) subjects. Significantly higher frequency of the...
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