The genetics of folate metabolism and maternal risk of birth of a child with Down syndrome and associated congenital heart defects

F Coppedè - Frontiers in genetics, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Almost 15 years ago it was hypothesized that polymorphisms of genes encoding enzymes
involved in folate metabolism could lead to aberrant methylation of peri-centromeric regions …

Synthetic combinations of missense polymorphic genetic changes underlying Down syndrome susceptibility

RA Jackson, ML Nguyen, AN Barrett, YY Tan… - Cellular and molecular …, 2016 - Springer
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are important biomolecular markers in health and
disease. Down syndrome, or Trisomy 21, is the most frequently occurring chromosomal …

Genetic variants of the folate metabolic system and mild hyperhomocysteinemia may affect ADHD associated behavioral problems

T Saha, M Chatterjee, D Verma, A Ray, S Sinha… - Progress in Neuro …, 2018 - Elsevier
An etiologically complex disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), is often
associated with various levels of cognitive deficit. Folate/vitamin B 9 is crucial for numerous …

Dietary choline and betaine intake, choline-metabolising genetic polymorphisms and breast cancer risk: a case–control study in China

YF Du, WP Luo, FY Lin, ZQ Lian, XF Mo… - British journal of …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Choline and betaine are essential nutrients involved in one-carbon metabolism and have
been hypothesised to affect breast cancer risk. Functional polymorphisms in genes …

Predicting the functional and structural consequences of nsSNPs in human methionine synthase gene using computational tools

M Desai, JB Chauhan - Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Methionine synthase encoded by the MTR gene is one of the key enzymes involved in the
SAM (S-Adenosyl Methionine) cycle catalyzing the conversion of homocysteine to …

Choline metabolic pathway gene polymorphisms and risk for Down syndrome: an association study in a population with folate-homocysteine metabolic impairment

SK Jaiswal, KK Sukla, A Chauhan… - European journal of …, 2017 - nature.com
Results: A significantly increased risk for BHMT+ 742AA genotype with an odds ratio of 4.96
(95% confidence interval (CI): 1.66–14.88, P= 0.0036) was observed. For PEMT rs12325817 …

Betaine–homocysteine methyltransferase 742G> A polymorphism and risk of down syndrome offspring in a Brazilian population

MR Amorim, CM Moura, AD Gomes, HN Barboza… - Molecular biology …, 2013 - Springer
Down syndrome (DS) is the most common form of mental retardation of genetic etiology.
Several polymorphisms in genes involved with the folic acid cycle have been associated to …

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia and genetic variations in BHMT gene: Case-control study and computational characterization

R Bellampalli, M Vohra, K Sharma… - Cancer …, 2017 - content.iospress.com
BACKGROUND: Remethylation of homocysteine is catalyzed by B12 dependent methionine
synthase (MTR) in all types of cells and by B12 non-dependent betaine homocysteine …

Молекулярно-генетические нарушения генов фолатного и гомоцистеинового обмена в патогенезе ряда многофакторных заболеваний

АМ Бурдённый, ВИ Логинов, ТМ Заварыкина… - Генетика, 2017 - elibrary.ru
В процессы фолатного и гомоцистеинового обмена вовлечено большое число генов,
молекулярногенетические нарушения в которых представляют факторы риска …

[PDF][PDF] Association of genetic polymorphisms in genes involved at the branch point of nucleotide biosynthesis and remethylation with down syndrome birth risk: a case …

SK Jaiswal, KK Sukla, SK Mishra, AR Lakhotia… - J Mol Genet …, 2016 - researchgate.net
DNA methylation and nucleic acid biosynthesis are two crucial phenomena for normal
chromosomes segregation. From our earlier studies, MTHFR 677T individually and in …