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Research Project: Genomics, Nutrition, and Health

Location: Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center On Aging

Title: Nutrigenomics, the microbiome, and gene environment interactions: new directions in cardiovascular disease research, prevention, and treatment. A scientific statement From the American Heart Association

Author
item FERGUSON, JANE - Vanderbilt University
item ALLAYEE, HOOMAN - University Of North Carolina
item GERSZTEN, ROBERT - Harvard University
item IDERAABDULLAH, FOLAMI - University Of North Carolina
item KRIS-ETHERTON, PENNY - Pennsylvania State University
item ORDOVAS, JOSE - Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center On Aging At Tufts University
item RIMM, ERIC - Harvard University
item WANG, THOMAS - Vanderbilt University
item BENNETT, BRIAN - University Of North Carolina

Submitted to: Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics
Publication Type: Review Article
Publication Acceptance Date: 1/22/2016
Publication Date: 4/19/2016
Citation: Ferguson, J.F., Allayee, H., Gerszten, R.E., Ideraabdullah, F., Kris-Etherton, P.M., Ordovas, J.M., Rimm, E.B., Wang, T.J., Bennett, B.J. 2016. Nutrigenomics, the microbiome, and gene environment interactions: new directions in cardiovascular disease research, prevention, and treatment. A scientific statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics. 9(3):291-313.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Cardiometabolic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide and are strongly linked to both genetic and nutritional factors. The field of nutrigenomics encompasses multiple approaches aimed at understanding the effects of diet on health or disease development, including nutrigenetic studies investigating the relationship between genetic variants and diet in modulating cardiometabolic risk, as well as the effects of dietary components on multiple “omic” measures, including transcriptomics, metabolomics, proteomics, lipidomics, epigenetic modifications, and the microbiome. Here, we describe the current state of the field of nutrigenomics with respect to cardiometabolic disease research and outline a direction for the integration of multiple omics techniques in future nutrigenomic studies aimed at understanding mechanisms and developing new therapeutic options for cardiometabolic disease treatment and prevention.