Folate intake and breast cancer mortality in a cohort of Swedish women

HR Harris, L Bergkvist, A Wolk - Breast cancer research and treatment, 2012 - Springer
Folate may influence breast cancer development and progression through its role in one-
carbon metabolism. However, epidemiologic data on the relation between folate and breast …

Controversial roles of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase polymorphisms and folate in breast cancer disease

V Bravatà - International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Breast cancer (BC) represents a highly heterogeneous tumour at both the clinical and
molecular levels. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the folate-metabolising …

Impact of lifestyle factors on prognosis among breast cancer survivors in the USA

RE Ellsworth, AL Valente, CD Shriver… - Expert review of …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Advances in diagnostic screening and adjuvant therapy have dramatically increased the
number of breast cancer survivors in the USA, who may face changes in physical and …

Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase A1298C polymorphism and breast cancer risk: A meta analysis of 33 studies

V Rai - Annals of medical and health sciences research, 2014 - ajol.info
Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) enzyme is essential for DNA synthesis and
DNA methylation, and its gene polymorphisms have been implicated as risk factors for birth …

Gene promoter methylation is associated with increased mortality among women with breast cancer

X Xu, MD Gammon, Y Zhang, YH Cho… - Breast cancer research …, 2010 - Springer
To better understand breast cancer etiology and progression, we explored the association
between promoter methylation status of three breast cancer-related genes (BRCA1, APC …

Exome sequencing in a family with luminal-type breast cancer underpinned by variation in the methylation pathway

N Van der Merwe, AV Peeters, FM Pienaar… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Panel-based next generation sequencing (NGS) is currently preferred over whole exome
sequencing (WES) for diagnosis of familial breast cancer, due to interpretation challenges …

A review of web based interventions focusing on alcohol use

YPS Balhara, R Verma - Annals of medical and health sciences research, 2014 - ajol.info
Alcohol continues to be a major contributor to morbidity and mortality globally. Despite the
scientific advances, alcohol use related problems continue to pose a major challenge to …

Associations of folate intake with all-cause and cause-specific mortality among individuals with diabetes

H Su, Y Bo, X Zhang, J Zhang, Z Gao, Z Yu - Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background and aims The evidence regarding folate intake and mortality risk among
patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the …

Folate and breast cancer: what about high-risk women?

J Kotsopoulos, YI Kim, SA Narod - Cancer Causes & Control, 2012 - Springer
Folate is a water-soluble B-vitamin and is an important cofactor in one-carbon metabolism.
This vitamin plays an important role in the pathogenesis of several chronic diseases. In …

Associations of polymorphisms of folate cycle enzymes and risk of breast cancer in a Brazilian population are age dependent

RC Carvalho Barbosa, DC Menezes, TFV Freire… - Molecular biology …, 2012 - Springer
Polymorphisms in genes involved in folate metabolism have been shown to be implicated in
breast cancer risk but with contradictory results. In this case–control study, we investigated …