Various actions have been taken in object to improve human diet in iron with high bioavailibility. One of the new possibility of food fortification is introduction phytoferritin into. In order to do this various strategies are used as increasing of native ferritin supply in human diets as far as application genetic engineering for receiving cultivated plants with high expression of this plant. The most important feature of ferritin introducing into food is its high bioavailability.
We analyzed the role of the C677T polymorphism of the 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate and the A66G polymorphism of the methionine synthase reductase genes as risk factors for occurrence of spina bifida. The studied population included 106 mothers and 104 children from affected families, and a control group of 100 adults. We found statistically significant differences between the occurrence of the homozygosity in these polymorphisms in the groups of mothers and children with thoracolumbal defects (C677T polymorphism) and lumbosacral defects (A66G polymorphism). We postulate that these polymorphisms should be regarded as independent risk factors for spina bifida.
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