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Integrated nutrigenomic and metabolomic analysis of Africans with variable diet

ABSTRACT: Untargeted metabolic profiling and lipidomics profiling will be used to characterize a broad array of metabolites from plasma in 450 ethnically diverse individuals from Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Botswana with diverse diets. Mass spectrometry will be used to quantify metabolites previously found to be associated with cardiometabolic risk as well as the most informative metabolites from the untargeted screen. We will test for association of selected biomarkers with diet, geography, ancestry, and phenotypic variation. Metabolites obtained will be correlated with diet as well as clinical and anthropometric phenotypes. Using existing tools, we will assemble metabolites that associate with the various phenotypes into pathways and larger networks to provide insights into factors that relate to cardiometabolic health and disease. Finally, we will integrate metabolic and phenotypic data with genetic data from the SNP array and with high coverage whole genome sequence data. We will identify loci that play a role in local adaptation to diverse diets and will identify genetic variants associated with metabolite levels (mQTLs) and with the phenotypic traits listed above.

ORGANISM(S): Human Homo Sapiens

TISSUE(S): Blood

DISEASE(S): Heart Disease

SUBMITTER: Maureen Kachman

PROVIDER: ST000818 | MetabolomicsWorkbench | Thu Jul 13 00:00:00 BST 2017

REPOSITORIES: MetabolomicsWorkbench

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