Omar Ramos-Lopez, Fermín I Milagro, Hooman Allayee, Agata Chmurzynska, Myung Sook Choi, Rui Curi, Raffaele De Caterina, Lynnette R Ferguson, Leticia Goni, Jing X Kang, Martin Kohlmeier, Amelia Marti, Luis A Moreno, Louis Pérusse, Chandan Prasad, Lu Qi, Ram Reifen, Jose I Riezu-Boj, Rodrigo San-Cristobal, Jose Luis Santos, J Alfredo Martínez
Chronic diseases, including obesity, are major causes of morbidity and mortality in most countries. The adverse impacts of obesity and associated comorbidities on health remain a major concern due to the lack of effective interventions for prevention and management. Precision nutrition is an emerging therapeutic approach that takes into account an individual's genetic and epigenetic information, as well as age, gender, or particular physiopathological status. Advances in genomic sciences are contributing to a better understanding of the role of genetic variants and epigenetic signatures as well as gene expression patterns in the development of diverse chronic conditions, and how they may modify therapeutic responses...
2017: Journal of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics