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Nutrient Requirements and Optimal Nutrition

Choline Intake, Plasma Riboflavin, and the Phosphatidylethanolamine N-Methyltransferase G5465A Genotype Predict Plasma Homocysteine in Folate-Deplete Mexican-American Men with the Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase 677TT Genotype^1,2

³ Division of Nutritional Sciences and Genomics, and ⁴ Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853; ⁵ Nutrition, Metabolism and Genomics Group, Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, 6703 HD Wageningen, The Netherlands; and ⁶ Human Nutrition and Food Science Department, Cal Poly Pomona University, Pomona, CA 91768

We previously showed that provision of the folate recommended dietary allowance and either 300, 550, 1100, or 2200 mg/d choline for 12 wk resulted in diminished folate status and a tripling of plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) in men with the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) 677TT genotype. However, the substantial variation in tHcy within the 677TT genotype at wk 12 implied that several factors were interacting with this genotype to affect homocysteine. As an extension of this work, the present study sought to identify the main predictors of wk-12 plasma tHcy, alone and together with the MTHFR C677T genotype (29 TT, 31 CC), using linear regression analysis. A basic model explaining 82.5% of the variation (i.e. adjusted R² = 0.825) was constructed. However, the effects of the variables within this model were dependent upon the MTHFR C677T genotype (P for interaction 0.021). Within the 677TT genotype, serum folate (P = 0.005) and plasma riboflavin (P = 0.002) were strong negative predictors (inversely related) explaining 12 and 15%, respectively, of the variation in tHcy, whereas choline intake (P = 0.003) and serum creatinine (P < 0.001) were strong positive predictors, explaining 19 and 25% of the variation. None of these variables, except creatinine (P = 0.021), correlated with tHcy within the 677CC genotype. Of the 8 additional polymorphisms tested, none appeared to influence tHcy. However, when creatinine was not in the model, the phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase 5465GA variant predicted lower tHcy (P < 0.001); an effect confined to the MTHFR 677TT genotype. Thus, in folate-deplete men, several factors with roles in 1-carbon metabolism interact with the MTHFR C677T genotype to affect plasma tHcy.

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mac379{at}cornell.edu.

Manuscript received 29 September 2008. Initial review completed 8 November 2008. Revision accepted 14 January 2009.

Published online 11 February 2009.