Moving Forward with Nutrigenomics
Providing valid personalized nutritional advice to consumers on the basis of their genetic makeup will require scientific collaboration, data sharing, and joint funding strategies.
When we reviewed the scientific basis for nutrigenomics, or personalized nutrition, in 2003 (Fogg-Johnson and Kaput, 2003), the human genome project was recently completed and an ever-increasing understanding of molecular-level effects of nutrients continued. The excitement caused by the unparalleled international collaborations to analyze the human genome and its variability (International HapMap Consortium, 2005) created lofty expectations in the medical and pharmaceutical sectors, food indust…
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