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Importance of Topic to Practice
Nutritional genomics is the scientific field and application of the interaction between genetics, genomics and diet and nutrition in relation to disease treatment and prevention (1). It consists of two distinct areas, nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics. Nutrigenetics examines how genetic variation influences dietary response, while nutrigenomics examines how nutrients and bioactive food compounds influence gene expression (1). The advancement of nutritional genomics