Have you heard about the MTHFR gene mutation? It’s a relatively new finding, and it’s mostly cutting edge functional medicine and anti-aging physicians who talk about it. Researchers link it to an ...

Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) is an enzyme that breaks down the amino acid homocysteine. If the MTHFR gene that codes for this enzyme mutates, it may contribute to health issues, such as ...

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I remember first learning about folic acid maybe 15 years ago in school. Unless you were a chemist "folic acid" and "folate" were pretty much interchangeable words – except that folate was the form of ...

Seo-Yun Tong, Jong-Min Lee, Eun-Seop Song, Kwang-Beom Lee, Mi-Kyung Kim, Young Mi Yun, Jae-Kwan Lee, Sung-Kyong Son, Jung-Pil Lee, Jae-Hoon Kim, Soo-Young Hur and Yong-Il Kwon The purpose of the study ...

Despite the presence of a germline mutation in a MMR gene being a strong predictor of disease, there is considerable variation in the phenotypic expression in HNPCC patients, in particular the age of ...