Nutrition | Nutrition | DISCOVER Magazine
October, 2005:
Determining the effect of different nutrients on each gene variant is tricky and revolutionary because it would enable people to optimize their diet according to their particular genetics. Jim Kaput, a nutritional genomics researcher at the University of California at Davis and the University of Illinois at Chicago, notes that a percentage of the population has a polymorphic version of the GPDH gene, responsible for making an enzyme that helps cells convert sugar to energy.
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