Nutrigenomics of Risk Factors for Disease 2.0

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is the continuation of our 2016 Special Issue, “Nutrigenomics of Risk Factors for Disease” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijms/special_issues/nutrigenomics).

Over the past two decades, the focus of nutrition has shifted from traditional epidemiological approaches of investigating the effects of diet on general population health towards a better understanding of the main processes through which dietary components regulate biological functions. The completion of the human genome project revealed significant individual and population differences in response to diets that now need to be seriously considered when new nutritional strategies are to be developed.

The new era of nutrition (nutragenomics) became of particular importance when applied to the increased global epidemics of predominantly diet related diseases. Using tools of nutragenomics we begin to appreciate better the dualistic role of diet, not only in the propagation but also in the prevention of debilitating diseases of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, as well as the most influential factor in the epigenetic adaptations during fetal development and ageing.

Another important aspect of modern nutrition is to develop personalized diets and this great concept has yet to be fully developed. We need to learn more how to optimally combine traditional and bioinformatics’ information in our search for alternative approaches, with the processes of identification of responders and no responders as the primary goal in the applied nutragenomics.

This Special Issue, will focus on the nutragenomic role of diet in development and prevention of chronic diseases.

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Molecular Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. There is an Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal. For details about the APC please see here. Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• nutragenomics
• epigenetics
• metabolic phenotyping
• preventive health
• dietary interventions

• Nutrigenomics of Risk Factors for Disease in International Journal of Molecular Sciences (13 articles)