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Obesity in Latin America from a nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics perspective

Abstract:

Obesity is a chronic disease characterized by abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that could impact an individual’s health; moreover, the World Health Organization has declared obesity a global epidemic since 1997. In Latin America, in 2016, reports indicated that 24.2% of the adult population was obese. Genes could define susceptibility to a condition or disease, and the environmental factor or specific behaviors like dietary intake or physical activity could determine the development of that condition or disease such as obesity; hence, it is vital to understand the relationship between genes and disease. Indeed, nutrigenetics studies genetic variations and their effect on dietary response; while nutrigenomics study the role of nutrients in gene expression. The present review represents a compendium of genes and their SNPs associated with obesity, including the risk allele frequencies in the Latin American …