Relationship of MTHFR gene polymorphisms with renal and cardiac disease.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To investigate the effects of different methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) 677C>T gene polymorphism and hyperhomocysteinemia for the development of renal failure and cardiovascular events, which are controversial.

Methods

We challenged the relationship, if any, of MTHFR 677C>T and MTHFR 1298A>C polymorphisms with renal and heart function. The present article is a reappraisal of these concepts, investigating within a larger population, and including a subgroup of dialysis patients, if the two most common MTHFR polymorphisms, C677T and A1298C, as homozygous, heterozygous or with a compound heterozygous state, show different association with chronic renal failure requiring hemodialysis. MTHFR polymorphism could be a favorable evolutionary factor, i.e., a protective

SUBMITTER: Trovato FM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4317623 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature