Toxicogenetics and nutrigenetics: biomarkers in occupational medicine and litigation.
Along with other 'omic' technologies, advances in nutritional genomics are likely to lead to increasing personalization in the area of nutrition, diet and health. The power of nutrients to modulate the toxicity of environmental pollutants and the importance of nutritional status in determining longer-term health outcomes may be of major benefit in occupational health and preventive medicine. Advances in metabolomics offer the promise of validating important intermediate and surrogate markers for use in medical monitoring.
McGinty
Susan A
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London South Bank University, Faculty of Engineering, Science and the Built Environment, 103 Borough Road, London SE1 0AA, UK. mcgints@lsbu.ac.uk