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Relation between hypomethylation of long interspersed nucleotide elements and risk of neural tube defects
18 Feb 2010
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Impaired one-carbon metabolism is thought to be associated with the risk of neural tube defects (NTDs); however, the role of methylation in NTDs remains unclear. Long interspersed nucleotide element-1 (LINE-1) constitutes 17-25% of the human genome. LINE-1 hypomethylation correlates with global DNA methylation levels in cancerous cells, but limited information is available on LINE-1 methylation in...
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