La mutación en el metabolismo del ácido fólico causa inestabilidad epigenética y efectos transgeneracionales en el

Nisha Padmanabhan1, Dongxin Jia, Colleen Geary-Joo

  • 1Centre for Trophoblast Research, Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EG, UK.

Cell
|October 1, 2013
PubMed
Resumen

El metabolismo materno del folato es crucial para el desarrollo. Una mutación en la metionina sintetasa reductasa (Mtrr) causa defectos en el desarrollo y cambios epigenéticos, que afectan a la descendencia durante generaciones.

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