[individuals with the MTHFR 677TT genotype have a decreased risk of colorectal cancer in the absence of folate depletion, suggesting a protective role of folate by ensuring a sufficient thymidylate pool for DNA synthesis.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE