Current Highlight from March 12, 2010
Personalized Nutrition and Medicine — Community-Based Participatory Research
Scientists from the Division of Personalized Nutrition and Medicine represented the National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR) at the Arkansas Society of Public Health Information on March 2, 2010. They presented interim results from NCTR's collaboration with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Delta Obesity Prevention Research Program. FDA/NCTR and USDA/ARS have partnered with a Community Development Center in the Mississippi Delta region of Arkansas to conduct community-based participatory research that studies the effects of dietary intake and its influence on the development of obesity-associated diseases.
This ongoing collaboration analyzes dietary intake patterns and micronutrients levels in the blood samples of children and adults. The research also involves mapping genetic ancestry that may alter micronutrient requirements and their metabolism. The research strategy links genes involved in micronutrient metabolism, or regulation, to chromosomal loci involved in obesity and associated diseases (e.g., type 2 diabetes).
For additional information, please contact Anna Williams, Division of Microbiology, FDA/NCTR, or Jim Kaput, Ph.D., Director, Division of Biometry and Risk Assessment, FDA/NCTR.
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