Dietary Methyl Donors and Epigenetics during Lifecycle
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Micronutrients and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2020) | Viewed by 17665
Special Issue Editor
Interests: one-carbon metabolism; folate; B-vitamins; choline; methylation; epigenetics; maternal nutrition; cancer nutrition; nutrition epidemiology; public health nutrition; nutritional biomarkers
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue in Nutrients will focus on the role of dietary methyl donors in epigenetics and during the lifecycle. You and your co-workers are kindly invited to contribute to this Special Issue with relevant articles. We encourage topics related to intake of methyl donors, genetics and epigenetics, and, in particular, studies addressing common disease conditions in vulnerable groups, such as pregnant women, infants, or the elderly population.
Potential topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
The role of methyl donors (status markers or intake):
- Epigenetics of birth defects, cancer, vascular diseases, dementia, or osteoporosis;
- Child outcomes, such as physical growth, neurodevelopment, or asthma;
- Obesity;
- Fetal and maternal health;
- Liver disorders;
- Cognitive decline with aging;
- Osteoporosis and hip fracture.
We welcome RCTs, epidemiological studies, meta-analyses, classical reviews, and expert opinions.
Please contact me or the Editorial Office if you feel that your intended topic fits within the scope of this Special Issue.
I encourage all authors to discuss the impact of their results on future studies, and to specify gaps in knowledge that would be necessary to solve in the following years.
I welcome your proposed publication title along with 3–6 explanatory sentences (max. 150 words) until 30 September 2019. The final deadline for submitting articles is 29 February 2020. All articles will be peer reviewed, and articles received before the deadline will be immediately processed and published online.
It would be a great pleasure to have you be part of this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Rima Obeid
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- choline
- folate
- betaine
- methylation
- epigenetics
- infancy
- pregnancy
- obesity
- dementia
- elderly
- cancer
- osteoporosis
- deficiency
