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Highlights of the 2012 Research Workshop
Author(s) -
Zeisel Steven H.,
Waterland Robert A.,
Ordovás José M.,
Muoio Deborah M.,
Jia Wei,
Fodor Anthony
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.935
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1941-2444
pISSN - 0148-6071
DOI - 10.1177/0148607112462401
Subject(s) - nutrigenomics , metabolomics , parenteral nutrition , biology , nutritional science , medicine , bioinformatics , food science , biochemistry , gene
The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) Research Workshop, “Using Nutrigenomics and Metabolomics in Clinical Nutrition Research,” was held on January 21, 2012, in Orlando, Florida. The conference brought together experts in human nutrition who use nutrigenomic and metabolomic methods to better understand metabolic individuality and nutrition effects on health. We are beginning to understand how genetic variation and epigenetic events alter requirements for and responses to foods in our diet (the field of nutrigenetics/nutrigenomics and epigenetics). At the same time, methods for profiling almost all of the products of metabolism in plasma, urine, and tissues (metabolomics) are being refined. The relationships between diet and nutrigenomic‐metabolomic profiles, as well as between these profiles and health, are being elucidated, and this will dramatically alter clinical practice in nutrition.