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Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla

Combination of nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics will progress nutrition research

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, December 30th, 2005

Nutrition is moving towards nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics to uncover the relationship between nutritional molecules, genetic polymorphisms, and the biological system.

"The recognition that nutrients have the ability to interact and modulate molecular mechanisms underlying an organism's physiological functions has prompted a revolution in the field of nutrition. Performing population-scaled epidemiological studies in the absence of genetic knowledge may result in erroneous scientific conclusions and misinformed nutritional recommendations," reviewers in the United States report.

D.M. Mutch and colleagues at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla...

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