Kristen Brennan

I. INTRODUCTION Nutrigenomics is the study of how nutrients, forms of nutrients, and nutritional strategies impact the genome. The use of DNA microarray technology allows us to begin to understand how nutrition modulates gene expression and how this modulation relates to animal health and performance. These molecular technologies also allow for the rapid evaluation of nutritional strategies. Adv ...

Nutrigenomics 101: An Introduction Microarray technologies have spurred the development of the field of nutrigenomics. Using microarrays to evaluate the activity of thousands of genes simultaneously, offering a rapid measure of nutrient-induced, physiologic changes. Traditional animal trials involve feeding a specific diet and measuring whole-animal changes such as growth rate, production or per ...