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Nutrigenomics: The Future of Personalized Nutrition

Roots Analysis

At present, extensive studies are being conducted to understand the interaction between nutrients and gene expression at the molecular level, to determine the effect of a specific nutrient and dietary regime on human health. For example, people affected by phenylketonuria must avoid consuming food containing phenylalanine amino acid.

Genome 40
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Why a recent advancement is a giant leap for human genomics

Drug Discovery World

The new sequences contain largely highly repetitive DNA structures such as centromeres, telomeres, acrocentric genomic regions, where massive arrays of tandem repeats predominate, and heterochromatin. In turn, this will aid our understanding of the cells capacity to silence harmful DNA elements or prevent inappropriate gene expression.

Genome 52