Nutritional Genomics

Question 1

Go through genomic studies

Answer 1

GWAS, cross-sectional, etc

Question 2

Nutritional genomics

Answer 2

Gene environment interactions that may be managed to prevent diet related disease- cytochrome p450 genes and specific therapies

Question 3

SNPs: single nucleotide polymorphisms

Answer 3

A variation in a single nucleotide which may occur at a specific position in the genome

Question 4

Nutrigenetics

Answer 4

functional changes in the SNP of a person that influences their response to nutrients- single DNA base; variants=alleles

Question 5

GWAS

Answer 5

GWAS a genome-wide association study study of many different individuals to see if any variant is associated with a trait.

Question 6

Nutrigenomics

Answer 6

Nutrigenomics - seeks to identify environmental factors that effect gene expression (global gene expression/or single gene variants); The goal is to use food in a targeted fashion rather than just use food to supply the raw materials for cellular function.