The world's first wiki where authorship really matters (Nature Genetics, 2008). Due credit and reputation for authors. Imagine a global collaborative knowledge base for original thoughts. Search thousands of articles and collaborate with scientists around the globe.

wikigene or wiki gene protein drug chemical gene disease author authorship tracking collaborative publishing evolutionary knowledge reputation system wiki2.0 global collaboration genes proteins drugs chemicals diseases compound
Hoffmann, R. A wiki for the life sciences where authorship matters. Nature Genetics (2008)
 
 
 
 
 

Association of the C677T methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase mutation with congenital heart diseases.

BACKGROUND: To investigate whether the cytosine-to-thymine mutation at base 677 of the gene for methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) is associated with congenital heart diseases (CHD), using high throughput heteroduplex analysis based upon the powerful technique of denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography. METHODS: We investigated the MTHFR genotype of a cytosine-to-thymine mutation at base 677 for 213 patients of CHDs as confirmed by cardiac catheterization and also for 195 healthy controls. RESULTS: The overall genotype frequencies of the MTHFR C677T polymorphism were not significantly different between the CHD patients and the healthy control (P = 0.345). Furthermore, taking various subgroups of CHD patients into consideration, we noted a significantly increased proportion of homozygous TT genotypes for patients suffering from valvular pulmonary stenosis (PS) or pulmonary atresia with an intact ventricular septum (PA + IVS) (p = 0.0005). For patients revealing heterotaxy syndrome, a conotruncal anomaly including tetralogy of Fallot, an interruption of the aortic arch, persistent truncus arteriosus, and aortopulmonary window, no statistically significant difference existed. CONCLUSIONS: The discrepancy in the distribution of MTHFR genotypes amongst various subtypes of CHD reflects some heterogeneity in the developmental mechanism of CHD. The increased percentage of homozygous TT genotypes might contribute to the pathogenesis of valvular PS and PA + IVS.[1]

References

  1. Association of the C677T methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase mutation with congenital heart diseases. Lee, C.N., Su, Y.N., Cheng, W.F., Lin, M.T., Wang, J.K., Wu, M.H., Hsieh, F.J. Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica. (2005) [Pubmed]
 
WikiGenes - Universities