Nutrigenetics Flashcards
What is nutrigenetics?
Functional changes in the nucleic acid code that influences response to nutrients
What is nutrigenomics?
Identifies environmental factors that effect gene expression
What is nutritional epigenetic?
Changes in gene expression that does not involve changes in nucleotide sequence
What are some tools to discover new biomarkers of nutritional genomics?
Deep sequencing
GWAS - to see if any variant is associated with a given trait
What are some patient benefits from nutritional genomics?
Know risk in advance and avoid certain things
Confirm conditions
What do the terms “necessary” and “sufficient” mean in relation to a SNP?
SNP can be necessary to have a disease (if have disease will have SNP)
and/or sufficient (SNP causes disease itself)
