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Importance of gene variants and co-factors of folate metabolic pathway in the etiology of idiopathic intellectual disability.
Nutritional neuroscience - 1 Sept 2011
Dutta Samikshan, Shaw Jyoti, Chatterjee Arpita, Sarkar Kanyakumarika, Usha Rajamma, Chatterjee Anindita, Sinha Swagata, Mukhopadhyay Kanchan
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Different components of the folate metabolic cycle are crucial for maintaining integrity of DNA. The present study was aimed at exploring the role of some important constituents of the folate cycle in the etiology of idiopathic intellectual disability (IID). Nuclear families with IID probands (n=226) and ethnically matched controls (n=181) were recruited for micronucleus, karyotype, genetic polymorphism (MTR...
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