Posted by SLS on August 6, 2011, at 4:59:38
In reply to Can anyone interpret MTHFR Gene Test Results?, posted by mogger on August 5, 2011, at 20:13:09
> Hi there,
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> I went to my doctor and got an MTHFR test done to see if Deplin might help me but the results leave me completely lost.
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> I test "positive for one copy of the A1298C Mutation. I am "heterozygous for the A1298C mutation and negative (normal) for the C677T mutation in the MTHFR gene".
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> Does anyone know how to interpret these results? :) Many thanks,
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> Joseph
Apparently, the gene is autosomal dominant. That's like the brown eye allele predominating over the blue eye allele in humans. That you are heterozygous for this gene indicates that you have one normal allele and one mutated allele.You've got one mutated gene and one normal gene. The mutatated gene is stronger than the normal one, and will yield the mutated phenotype. In this case, the mutation will show up in both the homozygous A/A condition and the A/B heterozygous conditions, but not B/B homozygous.
Does this help? If not, feel free to reply to this post.
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