Nutritional and genetic factors associated with genome damage in children

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/572623

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

This project will investigate the link between children's diet and damage to their DNA. Damage to DNA is known to accumulate throughout life, and to be associated with risk of cancer and other diseases in adulthood. If we can show that poor diet in childhood increases DNA damage in childhood, it suggests that poor diet early in life may also increase risk of cancer and other diseases in adulthood. This will underpin important, salient health promotion messages we can provide to parents.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 01-01-2012

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $715,131.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Optical technology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Cancer | Chronic disease | DNA damage | Nutrition | Obesity | children | dietary intake | questionnaire design

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