PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | ovarian cancer |
| Phenotype | C0016412|folate deficiency |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 22605962 | folate deficiency leads to ovarian cancer through two mechanisms: by inducing misincorporation of uracil into dna, thus disrupting dna integrity and dna repair; and by altering dna methylation, which can alter expression of critical tumor suppressor genes and proto-oncogenes [8–10]. |
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