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Aditi Hazra1, Peter Kraft, Jacob Selhub, Edward L Giovannucci, Gilles Thomas, Robert N Hoover, Stephen J Chanock, David J Hunter.
Abstract
We identified a strong association (P = 5.36 x 10(-17)) between rs492602 in FUT2 and plasma vitamin B(12) levels in a genome-wide scan (n = 1,658) and an independent replication sample (n = 1,059) from the Nurses' Health Study. Women homozygous for the rs492602[G] allele had higher B(12) levels. This allele is in strong linkage disequilibrium with the FUT2 nonsecretor variant encoding W143X, suggesting a plausible mechanism for altered B(12) absorption and plasma levels.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18776911 PMCID: PMC2673801 DOI: 10.1038/ng.210
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Genet ISSN: 1061-4036 Impact factor: 38.330