Nutrition-gene interactions in human populations
Subtitle: the Amerindian case : second Nestlé Conference on Nutrition, Mexico City, Mexico, January 29-30, 1998.
Publisher: International Life Sciences Institute
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lawrence, KS
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
Subjects: Genotype-environment interaction -- Congresses.; Indians of North America x Congresses..; Nutrition x Congresses.
Other titles: Amerindian case
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: The "thrifty genotype" in 1998 / James V. Neel; value: Genetic variation and nutrition / Artemis P. Simopoulos; value: Nutrition-gene interactions during intrauterine life and lactation / William W. Hay, Jr.; value: Genotype-environment interaction in human obesity / Louis Perusse, and Claude Bouchard; value: Implications of the Human Genome Project for understanding gene-environnment interactions / Antonio Velasquez, and Hector Bourges; value: Lessons from genetic studies in native Canadian populations / Robert A. Hegele; value: Type 2 diabetes among the Pima Indians of Arizona : an epidemic attributable to environmental change? / Peter H. Bennett; value: The Pima Indians in Sonora, Mesico / Mauro E. Valencia, Peter H. Bennett, Eric Ravussin, Julian Esparza, Caroline Fox, and Leslie O. Schulz; value: Genetics of atherosclerisos risk factors in Mexican Americans / Jean W. MacCluer ... [et al.]; value: Genetic and environmental influences on type 2 diabetes mellitus in Mexican Americans / Michael P. Stern; value: The Mexico City diabetes study : a population-based approach to the study of genetic and environmental interactions in the pathogenesis of obesity and diabetes / Clicerio Gonzalez ... [et al.]; value: Obesity and cultural environment in the Yucatan Region / Pedro Arroyo ... [et al.]