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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 83, No. 2, 475S-483S, February 2006
© 2006 American Society for Clinical Nutrition

Supplement: Living Well to 100: Nutrition, Genetics, Inflammation

Interleukin 1 genetics, inflammatory mechanisms, and nutrigenetic opportunities to modulate diseases of aging1,2,3

Kenneth S Kornman1

1 From Interleukin Genetics Incorporated, Waltham, MA

ABSTRACT

Inflammation plays a central role in many diseases of aging, and genetic differences in the inflammatory response appear to influence different disease courses among individuals. Variations in the genes for the family of interleukin 1 (IL-1) proteins are inherited together in a small set of patterns and provide an example of the role of inflammatory genetics as a modifier of diseases of aging. The IL-1 genetic variations are associated with variation in both the inflammatory response and the clinical presentation of a range of diseases, including coronary artery disease, Alzheimer disease, gastric cancer, and periodontitis. This growing understanding of the role of genetic variation in inflammation and chronic disease presents opportunities to identify healthy persons who are at increased risk of disease and to potentially modify the trajectory of disease to prolong healthy aging. Nutrition represents one of the promising approaches to modulation of the risk of diseases of aging because of the effects of certain nutrients on gene expression. One of the most practical applications of nutritional modulation of chronic disease may be nutrients that regulate the expression of key inflammatory genes.

Key Words: Coronary artery disease • Alzheimer disease • cancer • periodontitis • nutrigenetics




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