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Title: Highlights of the 2012 research workshop: Using nutrigenomics and metabolomics in clinical nutrition research

Author
item ZEISEL, STEVEN - University Of North Carolina
item WATERLAND, ROBERT - Children'S Nutrition Research Center (CNRC)
item ORDOVAS, JOSE - Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center On Aging At Tufts University
item MUOIO, DEBORAH - Duke University
item JIA, ERI - University Of North Carolina
item FODOR, ANTHONY - University Of North Carolina

Submitted to: Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
Publication Type: Proceedings
Publication Acceptance Date: 9/1/2012
Publication Date: 3/1/2013
Citation: Zeisel, S.H., Waterland, R.A., Ordovas, J.M., Muoio, D.M., Jia, E., Fodor, A. 2013. Highlights of the 2012 research workshop: Using nutrigenomics and metabolomics in clinical nutrition research. Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. 37(2):190-200.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: 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.