A growing body of evidence suggests that mutations in MTHFR gene are involved in cardiovascular diseases (CVD) cardiac development, atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, heart failure, hypertension, aneurysmsand several other diseasecancers, neurological and metabolic disorders. Genetic variations in other genes are added risk for CVDa leading cause of morbidity and mortality around the globe...

Essential tremor (ET) is a most common human movement disorder of unknown etiology. Previous reports have shown that the C677T polymorphism of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene has been associated with neurodegenerative disorders. To investigate the role of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene polymorphisms in essential tremor, we analyzed the alleles and genotypes of methylenetetrah...

We investigated the association between methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (gene MTHFR 677C>T, rs1801133), 5-methyltetrahydrofolate-homocysteine methyltransferase (MTR 2756A>G, rs1805087), and dehydrogenase, cyclohydrolase formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase 1 MTHFD1 1958G>A, rs2236225)—well-studied functional variants involved in one-carbon metabolism—and gynecologic cancer risk, inter...

In enterobacteria, the methyl group of methionine is donated by 5-methyltetrahydrofolate that is synthesized from N5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate by the 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase. The Streptomyces lividans metF gene, which encodes 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase, has been cloned. It encodes a protein of 307 amino acids with a deduced molecular mass of 33,271 Da. S1 exonu...

introduction: one factor known to cause thrombophilia in women with unexplained recurrent spontaneous abortion (rsa) is c677t polymorphism of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene. this study aimed to determine the association between rsa and mthfr c677t polymorphism in iranian patients. methods: in this case-control study, 30 patients with previous history of two or more consecutive unexpla...

background: inherited thrombophilic gene polymorphisms have been related to the pathogenesis of venous thromboembolism and its outcomes. considering the scarcity of data on the frequency of the thrombophilic gene polymorphisms in iranian populations, the aim of this study was to assess such polymorphisms in healthy individuals. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was performed on ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Thromboembolic diseases remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality in most countries. The present study was thus conducted to determine the influences of age, sex, the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene mutation and the B vitamins on the plasma homocysteine (Hcy) levels in the Chinese. Our previous study found that Chinese carry the same mutation of ...