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Changes in Presenilin 1 gene methylation pattern in diet-induced B vitamin deficiency.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Feb 2011
Fuso Andrea, Nicolia Vincenzina, Pasqualato Alessia, Fiorenza Maria Teresa, Cavallaro Rosaria A, Scarpa Sigfrido
Abstract excerpt
We have previously shown that a nutritional model of B vitamin deficiency and homocysteine cycle alteration could lead to increased amyloid β deposition, due to PSEN1 and BACE over-expression and consequent increase in secretase activity. We hypothesize that nutritional factors causing homocysteine cycle alterations (i.e. hyperhomocysteinemia) could induce sequence-specific DNA hypomethylation and "aberrant" gene...
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