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SUBMITTER: Ji Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4277006 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ji Yuelong Y Kong Xiangyi X Wang Guoying G Hong Xiumei X Xu Xin X Chen Zhu Z Bartell Tami T Xu Xiping X Tang Genfu G Hou Fanfan F Huo Yong Y Wang Xiaobin X Wang Binyan B
Nutrients 20141218 12
Plasma homocysteine (Hcy) is a modifiable, independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and is affected by both environmental and genetic factors. This study aimed to describe the gender- and age-specific distribution of Hcy concentration for 1117 subjects aged 10-66 years, a subset of a community-based rural Chinese twin cohort. In addition, we examined environmental and genetic contributions to variances in Hcy concentration by gender and age groups. We found that the distribution ...[more]