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Genome-wide significant predictors of metabolites in the one-carbon metabolism pathway.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Dec 2009
Hazra Aditi, Kraft Peter, Lazarus Ross, Chen Constance, Chanock Stephen J, Jacques Paul, Selhub Jacob, Hunter David J
Abstract excerpt
Low plasma B-vitamin levels and elevated homocysteine have been associated with cancer, cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative disorders. Common variants in FUT2 on chromosome 19q13 were associated with plasma vitamin B12 levels among women in a genome-wide association study in the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) NCI-Cancer Genetic Markers of Susceptibility (CGEMS) project. To identify additional loci associated...
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