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Functional genomics and proteomics applied to the study of nutritional metabolism
1Department of Biochemistry, Center in Molecular Toxicology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
Nutrition Reviews
|August 24, 2001
Abstract:
Functional genomics, commonly applied to the genes and enzymes involved in metabolism of chemicals, can also be applied to enzymes involved in the metabolism of nutrients. Although in its infancy, genomics can be used to determine relationships between nutrition and toxicology, drug metabolism, and cancer.