date:Aug 15, 2013
A gene variant strongly associated with development of type 2 diabetes appears to interact with a Mediterranean diet pattern to prevent stroke, report researchers from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA) at Tufts University and from the CIBER Fisiopatologa de la Obesidad y Nutriciόn in Spain.
Their results, published online in Diabetes Care, are said to be a significant advance for nutrigenomics, the study of the linkages between nutrition and gene functi