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The major omics platforms are genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and metagenomics. Increasingly, scientists integrate multi-omics analyses to understand the complex biological information that leads to disease, and determine how nutrition can impact pet health.1–4
Adapted from Kato et al., 2011
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- Civelek, M., & Lusis, A. J. (2014). Systems genetics approaches to understand complex traits. Nature reviews. Genetics, 15(1), 34–48.
- Hasin, Y., Seldin, M., & Lusis, A. (2017). Multi-omics approaches to disease. Genome biology, 18(1), 83.
- Kato, H., Takahashi, S., & Saito, K. (2011). Omics and integrated omics for the promotion of food and nutrition science. Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine, 1(1), 25–30.
- Li, Q., Freeman, L.M., Rush, J.E., Huggins, G.S., Kennedy, A.D., Labuda, J.A., Laflamme, D.P., & Hannah, S.S. (2015). Veterinary Medicine and Multi-Omics Research for Future Nutrition Targets: Metabolomics and Transcriptomics of the Common Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease in Dogs. OMICS, 19(8), 461–470.