Nutrigenomics concepts

• Authors: M. Koziolkiewicz
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The term nutrigenomics refers to the effect of diet on gene expression, while the term nutrigenetics refers to the influence of genetic variation (single nucleotide polymorphisms and/or copy number variation) on the response to a specific diet, functional food or diet supplement. Nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics become an important new research areas because there is growing evidence that diet can influence the long-term risk for metabolic, degenerative or cancer diseases. Various nutrients can influence DNA and chromatine structure, regulation of transcription and signal transduction. Understanding of the diet-gene interactions will allow to redefine current concepts of preventive medicine or dietetics and improve functional food production.

Keywords

EN

GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; NUTRIGENETICS; NUTRIGENOMICS

Discipline

• BIOTECHNOLOGY: BIOTECHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Committee of Biotechnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Biotechnologia
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 9-34

Contributors

author

M. Koziolkiewicz

• Document Type: ARTICLE
• Publication order reference: Maria Koziolkiewicz, Instytut Biochemii Technicznej, Politechnika Lodzka, ul. Stefanowskiego 4/10, Lodz, Poland