UC Davis Center for Nutritional Genomics & The Five Tenets of Nutrigenomics

Yet another university that is expanding their departments to include the field of Nutrigenomics. Click here to be linked to their site.

Their mission statement, quite like that of GeneWize, is as follows:

The mission of the Center is to reduce and ultimately eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities resulting from environment x gene interactions, particularly those involving dietary, economic, and cultural factors. Our goal is to devise genome-based nutritional interventions to prevent, delay, and treat diseases such asthma, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and prostate cancer. To achieve this goal, the Center is taking a multidisciplinary approach to develop culturally competent methods and novel technologies to elucidate the complex interactions between environmental triggers, genes, and disease.



Here are the official 5 Tenets of Nutrigenomics:


* Under certain circumstances and in some individuals, diet can be a serious risk factor for a number of diseases.

* Common dietary chemicals can act on the human genome, either directly or indirectly, to alter gene expression or structure.

* The degree to which diet influences the balance between healthy and disease states may depend on an individual’s genetic makeup.

* Some diet-regulated genes (and their normal, common variants) are likely to play a role in the onset, incidence, progression, and/or severity of chronic diseases.

* Dietary intervention based on knowledge of nutritional requirement, nutritional status, and genotype (i.e., "personalized nutrition") can be used to prevent, mitigate or cure chronic disease.