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Anne Parle-McDermott1, James L Mills, Anne M Molloy
1School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Abstract:
Individuals homozygous for the thermolabile variant (677TT) of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase exhibit reduced folate status as evidenced by a drop in the biomarker red cell folate (RCF) compared to those who carry at least one 677C allele. We now report that a different polymorphism in the same enzyme, namely 1298A>C, is associated with increased RCF levels. Thus, these two common polymorphisms change a metabolic phenotype in opposite directions suggesting that their cancer protective associations are by different mechanisms.
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