Professor Anne Marie Minihane is the head of the Nutrigenetics Group in Norwich Medical School, at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK. Following her PhD studies she spent 12 years in a variety of research and academic roles at the Hugh Sinclair Human Nutrition Unit, University of Reading UK, where she was also co-founder and deputy Director of the Institute of Metabolic and Cardiovascular Health. Following a short period as Associate Professor in Physiology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, Anne Marie was appointed as Prof of Nutrigenetics at UEA in June 2010. Her group's primary research focus is investigating the independent and interactive impact of dietary components (in particular fatty acids and flavonoids) and common gene variants on the cardiovascular phenotype. A more recent phenotype of interest is aging, cognition and age-related cognitive decline. The majority of Minihane's research uses randomised controlled trials (RCTs) with both prospective and retrospective SNP genotyping and more recently sequencing technology. The ‘human’ work is complemented by cell and rodent studies and molecular biology approaches to investigate the physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying gene*diet*phenotype associations. Minihane is also on the editorial board of BJN and Nutrition & Aging, and scientific advisor to the ILSI Metabolic Syndrome & Diabetes Panel.
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