Folate {60000099}
| Biotic: | Folate |
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| Initialisation date: | 2020-10-13 |
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Folic acid | |
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| Functional Type: | Vitamin |
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Shared Notes
- [1.1]
- There is a growing body of epidemiological evidence that folate modulates anticarcinogenic properties through epigenetic changes, as folate deficiency reduces the potential for DNA methylation, and abnormal DNA methylation is associated with many types of cancer. - [1.2]
- Maternal folic acid consumption > strongly negatively correlated with abundance of Betaproteobacteria, Burkholderiaceae, and Sutterella