Articles of Potential Interest
June 2009*

Beaudin AE, Stover PJ. 2009. Insights into metabolic mechanisms underlying folate-responsive neural tube defects: a minireview. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 85(4): 274-284. Abstract

Beriaghi S, Myers SL, Jensen SA, Kaimal S, Chan CM, Schaefer GB. 2009. Cleft lip and palate: association with other congenital malformations. J Clin Pediatr Dent 33(3): 207-210. Abstract

Blom HJ. 2009. Folic acid, methylation and neural tube closure in humans. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 85(4): 295-302. Abstract

Bower C, D'Antoine H, Stanley FJ. 2009. Neural tube defects in Australia: trends in encephaloceles and other neural tube defects before and after promotion of folic acid supplementation and voluntary food fortification. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 85(4): 269-273. Abstract

Calonge N, Petitti DB, DeWitt TG, Dietrich AJ, Gregory KD, Grossman D, Isham G, LeFevre ML, Leipzig RM, Marion LN, Melnyk B, Moyer VA, Ockene JK, Sawaya GF, Schwartz JS, Wilt T. 2009. Folic acid for the prevention of neural tube defects: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement. Ann Intern Med 150(9): 626-U10. Abstract

Calvo AS, Puig BM, Garcia LJ, Suarez-Varela MMM, Gomez AA, Machancosa RB, Caplliure AP, Bordes GT, Clemente NG, Marti LC. 2009. Birth characteristics due to in vitro fertilization (IVF) techniques. Ann Intern Med 70(4): 333-339. Abstract

Chavez-Corral DV, Velazco-Campos MR, Sanin LH, Levario-Carrillo M, Aguirre-Rodriguez AA, Martinez LE. 2008. Relation between levels of folic acid, vitamin B12 and maternal homocysteine with neural tube defects and cleft lip. Int J Morphol 26(4): 905-914. Abstract

Czeizel AE. 2009. Periconceptional folic acid and multivitamin supplementation for the prevention of neural tube defects and other congenital abnormalities. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 85(4): 260-268. Abstract

Gray JD, Ross ME. 2009. Mechanistic insights into folate supplementation from Crooked tail and other NTD-prone mutant mice. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 85(4): 314-321. Abstract

Greene NDE, Massa V, Copp AJ. 2009. Understanding the causes and prevention of neural tube defects: insights from the splotch mouse model. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 85(4): 322-330. Abstract

Hardin J, Carmichael SL, Selvin S, Lammer EJ, Shaw GM. 2009. Increased prevalence of cardiovascular defects among 56,709 California twin pairs. Am J Med Genet A 149A(5): 877-886. Abstract

Harris MJ. 2009. Insights into prevention of human neural tube defects by folic acid arising from consideration of mouse mutants. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol 85(4): 331-339. Abstract

Ionescu-Ittu R, Marelli AJ, Mackie AS, Pilote L. 2009. Prevalence of severe congenital heart disease after folic acid fortification of grain products: time trend analysis in Quebec, Canada. BMJ 338: b1673. Abstract

Jia ZL, Li Y, Li L, Wu J, Zhu LY, Yang C, Chen CH, Shi B. 2009. Association among IRF6 polymorphism, environmental factors, and nonsyndromic orofacial clefts in western China. DNA Cell Biol 28(5): 249-257. Abstract

Joo JG. 2009. Recent perspectives on the genetic background of neural tube defects with special regard to iniencephaly. Expert Rev Mol Diagn 9(3): 281-293. Abstract

Kalfa N, Philibert P, Sultan C. 2009. Is hypospadias a genetic, endocrine or environmental disease, or still an unexplained malformation? Int J Androl 32(3): 187-197. Abstract

Liguori NF, Klajn D, Acion L, Caceres F, Calle A, Carra A, Cristiano E, Deri N, Garcea O, Jaureguiberry A, Onaha P, Patrucco L, Riccio P, Escalante RR, Saladino ML, Sinay V, Tarulla A, Villa A. 2009. Epidemiological characteristics of pregnancy delivery and birth outcome in women with multiple sclerosis in Argentina (EMEMAR study). Mult Scler 15(5): 555-562. Abstract

Liu SW, Liu JX, Tang J, Ji JF, Chen JW, Liu CY. 2009. Environmental risk factors for congenital heart disease in the Shandong Peninsula, China: a hospital-based case-control study. J Epidemiol 19(3): 122-130. Abstract

Onrat ST, Seyman H, Konuk M. 2009. Incidence of neural tube defects in Afyonkarahisar, western Turkey. Genet Mol Res 8(1): 154-161. Abstract

Roest PA, Molin DG, Schalkwijk CG, van Iperen L, Wentzel P, Eriksson UJ, Gittenberger-de Groot AC. 2009. Specific local cardiovascular changes of N-epsilon-(carboxymethyl)lysine, vascular endothelial growth factor, and Smad2 in the developing embryos coincide with maternal diabetes-induced congenital heart defects. Diabetes 58(5): 1222-1228. Abstract

Root ED, Meyer RE, Emch ME. 2009. Evidence of localized clustering of gastroschisis births in North Carolina, 1999-2004. Soc Sci Med 68(8): 1361-1367. Abstract

Sebastiani G, Cortada AP, Sorde EV, Aloy JF, Cortina JB. 2009. Factors associated with assisted reproduction technologies and neonatal outcomes. An Pediatr (Barc) 70(4): 323-332. Abstract

Shirangi A, Fritschi L, Holman CDJ, Bower C. 2009. Birth defects in offspring of female veterinarians. J Occup Environ Med 51(5): 525-533. Abstract

Sozen MA, Tolarova MM, Spritz RA. 2009. The common MTHFR C677T and A1298C variants are not associated with the risk of non-syndromic cleft lip/palate in northern Venezuela. J Genet Genomics 36(5): 283-288. Abstract

Tamim H, Harrison G, Atoui M, Mumtaz G, El-Kak F, Seoud M, Yunis K. 2009. Preconceptional folic acid supplement use in Lebanon. Public Health Nutr 12(5): 687-692. Abstract

Tomatir AG, Demirhan H, Sorkun HC, Koksal A, Ozerdem F, Cilengir N. 2009. Major congenital anomalies: a five-year retrospective regional study in Turkey. Genet Mol Res 8(1): 19-27. Abstract

Wolff T, Witkop CT, Miller T, Syed SB. 2009. Folic acid supplementation for the prevention of neural tube defects: an update of the evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Ann Intern Med 150(9): 632-639. Abstract

Zhang T, Xin RL, Gu X, Wang F, Pei LJ, Lin LM, Chen G, Wu JX, Zheng XY. 2009. Maternal serum vitamin B-12 folate and homocysteine and the risk of neural tube defects in the offspring in a high-risk area of China. Public Health Nutr 12(5): 680-686. Abstract