BMJ 2002;324:1438-1442 ( 15 June )

Clinical review

Science, medicine, and the future

Nutritional genomics

Ruan Elliott, nutritional genomics programme leader a, Teng Jin Ong, associate director b. 

a Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich NR4 7UA, b Clinical Research development, TNO BIBRA, Carshalton SM5 4DS

Correspondence to: Ruan Elliott ruan.elliott@bbsrc.ac.uk

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The link between diet and health is well established, but renewed interest in which dietary components are biologically active and how they exert their effects is being fuelled by the development of nutritional genomics. Nutritional genomics is the application of high throughput functional genomic technologies in nutrition research. These technologies can be integrated with databases of genomic sequences1 and inter-individual genetic variability,2 enabling the process of gene expression to be studied for many thousands of different genes in parallel. Such techniques can facilitate the definition of optimal nutrition at the level of populations, particular groups, and individuals. This in turn should promote the development of food derived treatments and funtionally enhanced foods to improve health.

This review discusses both the science and its potential.
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This article is based on a review of the literature and our combined personal experience of 19 years working in clinical and molecular nutrition research. It also . . . [Full text of this article]
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