New Perspective on Impact of Folic Acid Supplementation during Pregnancy on Neurodevelopment/Autism in the Offspring Children - A Systematic Review.

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Published in PLoS One on November 22, 2016

Authors

Yunfei Gao1,2,3, Chao Sheng1, Ri-Hua Xie2,4,5, Wen Sun6, Elizabeth Asztalos7,8, Diane Moddemann9, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum10,11, Mark Walker2,3,12, Shi Wu Wen2,3,12

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
2: OMNI Research Group, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, Ottawa, Canada.
3: Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada.
4: Hunan University of Medicine Department of Nursing, Huaihua, Hunan, China.
5: McLaughlin Center for Population Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, Ottawa, Canada.
6: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Third Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
7: Centre for Mother, Infant and Child Research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
8: Departments of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
9: Department of Pediatrics and Child Health and Neonatal Follow-up Program, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
10: Departments of Pediatrics and of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
11: Autism Research Centre, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, Edmonton, Canada.
12: School of Epidemiology, Public Health, and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

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