PERSONALIZED NUTRITION: GENETICS, GENOMICS, AND METAGENOMICS

BMI/STAT 620

Provides a comprehensive survey of statistical methods in human genetics research. Covered topics include linkage analysis, genome-wide association study, rare variant association analysis, meta-analysis, genome and variant annotation, heritability estimation, multi-trait modeling techniques, multi-omic data integration, and genetic risk prediction.

NUTRSCI/POPHLTH 621

Techniques used to evaluate relationships of diet to health and disease in human populations; integration of knowledge gained with results of animal and clinical studies toward understanding dietary risk or protective factors for disease. Includes advanced diet assessment and basic epidemiologic approaches.

NUTRSCI 132

Nutrition and its relationship to humans and their biological, social, and physical environment; current issues and concerns that affect the nutritional status of various population groups.

NUTRSCI 726

Highlights the important interaction between nutrition and the human gastrointestinal tract (GI). Includes exploration of various gastrointestinal related disorders and diseases, and covers contemporary issues, current research, and real-life examples applicable to the field of nutrition, and nutrition providers. Includes instruction from content collaborators and GI nutrition experts. Apply the pathophysiology of GI disorders and disease, deconstruct differential diagnoses; and describe current medical management and dietary requirements of an individual and translate this into appropriate medical nutritional therapy.

NUTRSCI 618

Exploration of current challenges and research approaches related to the progress of nutritional sciences in the era of precision nutrition. Topics include limitations of population-based approaches to establishing dietary guidelines, hurdles to developing biomarkers for determining individual nutritional status, the impact of genetics, epigenetics, the microbiome, diet interactions, and other factors on nutritional and metabolic variability among people, and the ways in which precision nutrition can revolutionize how nutrition recommendations are devised and delivered to the public.