Reduced folate carrier gene is a risk fa
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Lijun Pei; Huiping Zhu; Aiguo Ren; Zhiwen Li; Ling Hao; Richard H. Finnell; Zhu
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## BACKGROUND There is a considerable body of data demonstrating that periconceptional supplementation of folic acid can prevent a significant proportion of neural tube defects (NTDs). At present, the mechanism by which folic acid exerts its beneficial effect remains unknown. Folate tr