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J Microsc Ultrastruct. 2016 Jul-Sep;4(3):115-122. doi: 10.1016/j.jmau.2016.02.002. Epub 2016 Mar 08.

The role of nutrition related genes and nutrigenetics in understanding the pathogenesis of cancer.

Journal of microscopy and ultrastructure

Ayman Zaky Elsamanoudy, Moustafa Ahmed Mohamed Neamat-Allah, Fatma Azzahra' Hisham Mohammad, Mohammed Hassanien, Hoda Ahmed Nada

Affiliations

  1. Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
  2. Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.
  3. Medical Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt.

PMID: 30023217 PMCID: PMC6014201 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmau.2016.02.002

Abstract

Nutrition has a predominant and recognizable role in health management. Nutrigenetics is the science that identifies and characterizes gene variants associated with differential response to nutrients and relating this variation to variable disease states especially cancer. This arises from the epidemiological fact that cancer accounts for a high proportion of total morbidity and mortality in adults throughout the world. There is much evidence to support that genetic factors play a key role in the development of cancer; these genetic factors such as DNA instability and gene alterations are affected by nutrition. Nutrition may also lead to aberrant DNA methylation, which in turn contributes to carcinogenesis. The aim of this work is to clarify the basic knowledge about the vital role of nutrition-related genes in various disease states, especially cancer, and to identify nutrigenetics as a new concept that could highlight the relation between nutrition and gene expression. This may help to understand the mechanism and pathogenesis of cancer. The cause of cancer is a complex interplay mechanism of genetic and environmental factors. Dietary nutrient intake is an essential environmental factor and there is a marked variation in cancer development with the same dietary intake between individuals. This could be explained by the variation in their genetic polymorphisms, which leads to emergence of the concept of nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics.

Keywords: cancer; nutrigenetics; pathogenesis

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