Nutrigenomics : An Emerging Scientific Discipline
The identification and understanding of individual and population differences and similarities in gene expression in response to diet can lead to food products customized for an individual’s nutritional needs.
Effects of the Human Genome Project are surfacing in anticipated and unanticipated areas. One of the key discoveries from the project is the existence of individual differences in gene sequences that result in differential response to environmental factors, such as diet. Those genetic differences, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs, pronounced snips), are the key genetic enabler of the emerging scientific discipline called nutrigenomics or nutritional genomics. In the broad arena of health an…
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