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COURSE CONTENT
Incurrence of disease involving single or several genes. The impact of evolution and gene variants on nutrigenomics. Molecular mechanisms of interactions gene and nutrient as well as nutrients and humans genotype. Nutrient impact on the regulation of gene expression. The impact of gene variants, nutritional parameters on appearance of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity, arthritis, and cancer. Gene variants and obesity. Regulation of lysogenic genes in obesity. The impact of nutrients and genomes on appearance of chronic disease. Gene polymorphisms, nutrition, and the inflammatory response. The impact of gene variants and nutrition on appearance of cancer. The overall picture of novel scientific field functional genomics. Comparison and automatic annotation of newly sequenced human genomes with the genome of "healthy" human.
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