High red blood cell folate levels linked to silenced tumor-suppressors

Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 18:00 in Health & Medicine

People with higher levels of folate in their red blood cells were more likely to have two tumor-suppressing genes shut down by methylation, a chemical off switch for genes, researchers report in the December issue of Cancer Prevention Research.

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