Until recently, nutrition research concentrated on nutrient deficiencies and impairment of
health. The advent of genomics—interpreted broadly as a suite of high throughput …

The interface between the nutritional environment and cellular/genetic processes is being
referred to as “nutrigenomics.” Nutrigenomics seeks to provide a molecular genetic …

Nutritional genomics, which studies the genome-wide influences of nutrition, has far-
reaching potential in the prevention of diet-related disease. It is highly likely that during the …

The success of the Human Genome Project and the powerful tools of molecular biology
have ushered in a new era of medicine and nutrition. The pharmaceutical industry expects to …

The recognition that nutrients have the ability to interact and modulate molecular
mechanisms underlying an organism's physiological functions has prompted a revolution in …

Nutrigenomics is the application of high-throughput genomics tools in nutrition research.
Applied wisely, it will promote an increased understanding of how nutrition influences …

The Institute of Medicine recently convened a workshop to review the state of the various
domains of nutritional genomics research and policy and to provide guidance for further …

The human genome is estimated to encode over 30,000 genes, and to be responsible for
generating more than 100,000 functionally distinct proteins. Understanding the …

Numerous studies in humans, animals, and cell cultures have demonstrated that
macronutrients (eg, fatty acids and proteins), micronutrients (eg, vitamins), and naturally …

Many diseases and disorders are related to suboptimal nutrition in terms of deficits of
essential nutrients, imbalance of macronutrients, or even toxic concentrations of certain food …