Courses Details
NUTR638: Nutrigenomics
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Fall term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s):
- Not offered 2024-2025
- Prerequisites: None
- Advisory Prerequisites: College-level introductory biology, physiology, or equivalent coursework.
- Description: This course aims to understand, in depth, the influence of genetics on micronutrient metabolism, and implications for human diseases including inherited inborn disease, metabolic disease, cancer, neurodevelopment, and neurodegenerative diseases, etc.
- Learning Objectives: Students taking this course are expected to learn about: 1. Etiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of micronutrient related human genetic disorders 2. Interactions of micronutrients with human disease states 3. Influence of genetic variation on nutritional requirement 4. Role of genetics in human nutrient metabolism 5. Regulation of genetics on cellular and molecular metabolism
| Department | Program | Degree | Competency | Specific course(s) that allow assessment | NUTR | Molecular and Biochemical Nutrition | PhD | Predict how genetic variations in enzymes, nutrient transporters or regulators could affect human health and disease | NUTR630, NUTR631, NUTR638, Doctoral Qualifying Exam |
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