Nutrigenomics -- developing personalized diets for disease prevention

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Public release date: 29-Dec-2008

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-12/mali-npd122908.php

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Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News

Nutrigenomics -- developing personalized diets for disease prevention

New Rochelle, NY, December 29, 2008—The emerging field of nutrigenomics,

which aims to identify the genetic factors that influence the body's

response to diet and studies how the bioactive constituents of food

affect gene expression, is explored in a series of provocative,

interdisciplinary reports and analyses in the December 2008 Special

Issue (Volume 12, number 4) of OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology,

a peer-reviewed journal published by Ann Liebert, Inc.

(www.liebertpub.com). The issue is available free online at

www.liebertpub.com/omi

This compendium of papers describing the innovative new area of study

encompassed by nutrigenomics research is Part 1 of a two-part series.

Part 2 will be published in Spring 2009.

Nutrigenomic's bidirectional approach to investigating how the genetic

traits of an individual or population interact with their diet offers

many possibilities for targeted clinical interventions and preventive

medicine. These may include modifying either diet or the biochemical

response to food exposure to prevent disease in individuals shown to be

susceptible to the consequences of unfavorable dietary/genomic

interactions. In the future, nutrigenomics may potentially help guide

the development of customized diets based on an individual's genetic

make-up.

" In contrast to previous applications of genomics technologies where the

goal is to distinguish existing disease from absence of disease,

nutrigenomics aims to discern nuanced differences in predisease states

such that personalized dietary interventions can be designed to prevent

or modify future disease susceptibility, " write Guest Editors Béatrice

Godard, PhD, and Vural Ozdemir, MD, PhD, from the Department of Social

and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal, Québec, Canada.

" Nutrigenomics opens new and amazing frontiers in 21st century

biomedical and clinical research, " says Eugene Kolker, PhD, Executive

Editor of OMICS and Chief Data Officer at Seattle Children's Hospital,

Seattle, Washington.

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