The nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics of the dietary requirement for choline

Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science

Volumn 108, Issue , 2012, Pages 159-177

  Corbin, Karen D ^a   Zeisel, Steven H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Choline; Epigenetics; Metabolomics; Microbiome; Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861824545     PISSN: 18771173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-398397-8.00007-1     Document Type: Chapter

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