Main description:

This volume of Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science covers the recent advances in the expanding fields of nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics. Forty authors from eight countries have contributed to the publication, representing the most cutting-edge research available.

Contents:

Fundamentals of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics
Claude Bouchard and Jose M. Ordovas

Advances in Technologies and Study Design
Laurence D. Parnell

A Nutrigenomics View of Protein Intake: Macronutrient, Bioactive Peptides, and Protein Turnover
Chieh Jason Chou, Michael Affolter, and Martin Kussmann

Nutrigenomics and Nutrigenetics of Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
John P. Vanden Heuvel

Carbohydrate Intake
Armelle Leturque, Edith Brot-Laroche, and Maude Le Gall

Genetic and Epigenomic Footprints of Folate
J. Michael Salbaum and Claudia Kappen

The Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics of the Dietary Requirement for Choline
Karen D. Corbin and Steven H. Zeisel

Genetic Determinants of Dietary Antioxidant Status
Laura A. Da Costa, Bibiana Garcia-Bailo, Alaa Badawi, and Ahmed El-Sohemy

Mineral Intake
Maria G Stathopoulou, Stavroula Kanoni, George Papanikolaou, Smaragdi Antonopoulou, Tzortzis Nomikos and George Dedoussis

Gene-Sodium Interaction and Blood Pressure: Findings from Genomics Research of Blood Pressure Salt-Sensitivity
Tanika N. Kelly and Jiang He

Alcohol Intake
Dolores Corella

Coffee Intake
Marilyn C. Cornelis

Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics of Caloric Restriction
Itziar Abete, Santiago Navas-Carretero, Amelia Marti and J. Alfredo Martinez

Individualized Weight Management: What can be Learned from Nutrigenomics and Nutrigenetics?
Iwona Rudkowska and Louis Perusse

Taste Preferences
Maria Mercedes Galindo, Nanette Yvette Schneider, Frauke Stahler, Jonas Toele and Wolfgang Meyerhof

Nutrition and the Wpigenome
Paul Haggarty

Gene-Exercise Interactions
Tuomo Rankinen and Claude Bouchard

Adaptive Genetic Variation and Population Differences

Chao-Qiang Lai