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New center will probe links between diet, genes, and disease

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, February 10th, 2003

Exploring the links between diet, genes, and diseases in minority populations is the aim of a new National Center of Excellence in Nutritional Genomics at the University of California, Davis, and the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI).

The center is supported by a 5-year, $6.5 million grant from the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

Nutritional genomics, or "nutrigenomics," is the study of how different foods can interact with particular genes to increase the risk of diseases such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease and some cancers.

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