Gene-Dairy Food Interactions and Health Outcomes: A Review of Nutrigenetic Studies.

ABSTRACT: Each person differs from the next by an average of over 3 million genetic variations in their DNA. This genetic diversity is responsible for many of the interindividual differences in food preferences, nutritional needs, and dietary responses between humans. The field of nutrigenetics aims to utilize this type of genetic information in order to personalize diets for optimal health. One of the most well-studied genetic variants affecting human dietary patterns and health is the lactase persistence mutation, which enables an individual to digest milk sugar into adulthood. Lactase persistence is one of the most influential Mendelian factors affecting human dietary patterns to occur since the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution. However, the lactase persistence mutation is only one of many m

SUBMITTER: Comerford KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5537825 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature