MTHFR and hypertensive disorder: The difference in the association of C677T and A1298C with hypertension may be due to their gene polymorphism, with the C677T mutation site present in the MTHFR gene The C677T mutation site is found in exon 4 of the MTHFR gene and is involved in encoding the catalytic structural domain of the N-terminal part of the enzyme, which directly affects the catalytic activity of the enzyme, whereas the A1298C mutation site is found in exon 7 of the MTHFR gene and encodes the C-terminal regulatory domain.