This is an exciting opportunity to develop and conduct research at the forefront of nutritional
and genetic epidemiology, contributing to the prediction, prevention, and better …

It is now possible and affordable to sequence my own genome and multiple aspects of my
phenotype. In a recent paper (Chen et al. 2012), Mike Snyder demonstrated the beauty of …

Methods This article is based on a review of the literature and our combined personal
experience of 19 years working in clinical and molecular nutrition research. It also draws on …

Throughout our lives, we choose to a complex mixture of foods, which can have a positive or
negative impact on our health. Intricate biochemical processes extract the energy and other …

The development of high throughput techniques ('chip'technology) for measurement of gene
expression and gene polymorphisms (genomics), and techniques for measuring global …

Nutrigenomics is a specialty of 21st century life sciences and medicine that aims to
understand nutrient–genome interactions. While nutrigenomics continues to evolve as a …

Towards the end of the 20th century, we were successfully beginning to understand part of
the genetic basis of some human diseases. Up to that time, progress had been relatively …

Our individual metabolic phenotype is the result of the interaction between nutrients and
DNA to modify gene expression. This is a combination of epigenetic interactions whereby …

The ORIGINS Project (1) is the largest longitudinal cohort study in Australia, recruiting
10,000 pregnant women and their partners in Perth, Western Australia, and following up …

Epigenetics encompasses changes to marks on the genome that are copied from one cell
generation to the next, which may alter gene expression but which do not involve changes in …