Prenatal Vitamins, One-carbon Metabolism Gene Variants, and Risk for Autism

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Prenatal vitamins reduce the risk of autism by half, even more for some

higher-risk cases

By H. Maugh II, Los Angeles Times / For the Booster Shots blog

11:11 AM PDT, May 25, 2011

http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-autism-vitamins-05252011,0,574\

0890.story

Women who reported not taking prenatal vitamins immediately before and

during a pregnancy were twice as likley to have a child with autism, UC

researchers reported Wednesday. If the women also had a mutation

in a high-risk gene, they were seven times as likely to have a child

with the developmental disorder, the researchers reported in the online

edition of the journal Epidemiology. The study is scheduled to appear in

print in July....

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Prenatal Vitamins, One-carbon Metabolism Gene Variants, and Risk

for Autism

<http://journals.lww.com/epidem/Abstract/publishahead/Prenatal_Vitamins,_One_car\

bon_Metabolism_Gene.99561.aspx>

Schmidt, J.; Hansen, Robin L.; Hartiala, Jaana; Allayee, Hooman;

Schmidt, C.; Tancredi, J.; Tassone, Flora; Hertz-Picciotto,

Irva

Epidemiology., POST AUTHOR CORRECTIONS, 23 May 2011

doi: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31821d0e30