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Maternal folate-related gene environment interactions and congenital heart defects.
Obstetrics and gynecology - 1 Aug 2010
Hobbs Charlotte A, Cleves Mario A, Karim Mohammad A, Zhao Weizhi, MacLeod Stewart L
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether women with congenital heart defect (CHD)-affected pregnancies were more likely to have functional single-nucleotide polymorphisms in genes encoding enzymes in folate-dependent pathways. METHODS: A population-based case-control study of 572 women with CHD-affected pregnancies and 363 women in the control group was conducted. DNA samples were genotyped for single-nucleotide...
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