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              - General Strategies in Biomarker Research
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                                1. The proteomic revolution
- Dr. Larry Gold
 
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                                2. Lipid biomarkers: lipidomics of the macrophage and plasma lipidomes
- Prof. Edward A. Dennis
 
 - New Tools for Biomarker Research
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                                5. Development of glyco-biomarkers using glycoproteomics technologies
- Dr. Hisashi Narimatsu
 
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                                6. Circulating nucleic acids as biomarkers in cancer patients
- Prof. Klaus Pantel
 
 - Specific Disease Applications
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                                7. Biomarkers in breast cancer
- Prof. Joe Duffy
 
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                                8. Bacterial biomarkers
- Dr. Christiane Honisch
 
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                                9. Diabetes biomarkers
- Prof. Naveed Sattar
 
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                                10. Gene networks, brain networks: understanding schizophrenia
- Dr. Daniel Weinberger
 
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                                11. Biomarkers for Huntington's disease - promises and challenges
- Prof. Sarah Tabrizi
 
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                                12. Update on fluid biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases
- Prof. Henrik Zetterberg
 
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                                13. Biomarkers in osteoarthritis
- Dr. Ali Mobasheri
 
 - Biomarkers in Drug Discovery and Delivery
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                                14. Pharmacogenomics: emphasis on clinical drug development
- Dr. Amelia Warner
 
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                                15. Biomarkers in drug development: potential use and challenges
- Dr. Abdel-Bassett Halim
 
 - Biomarkers in development, nutrition, and health
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                                18. Ethnic differences in nutrition
- Prof. Jose Ordovas
 
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                                19. Non-invasive prenatal diagnostics
- Prof. Y. M. Dennis Lo
 
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                                20. Epigenetic biomarkers in cancer
- Prof. Bob Brown
 
 - Archived Lectures *These may not cover the latest advances in the field
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                                21. Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease
- Prof. Henrik Zetterberg
 
 
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Navigable Slide Index
- Introduction
 - Food may explain human uniqueness
 - Brain volume and early cultural events evolution
 - The shore-based diet
 - Fire and cooking
 - Out-of-Africa (1)
 - Out-of-Africa (2)
 - Out-of-Africa (3)
 - Out-of-Africa (4)
 - Food shaping the genome and human diversity
 - Salivary amylase
 - Distribution of salivary amylase copy number
 - Dairy products
 - Lactose tolerance/intolerance
 - Lactase persistence and lactase non-persistence
 - World map lactase persistence
 - Alcoholic beverages consumption
 - Alcohol tolerance: the ADH1 locus
 - Towards globalization
 - The agricultural revolution
 - Food globalization
 - Dietary globalization consequence (1)
 - Dietary globalization consequence (2)
 - Human nutrition research in the 20th century
 - The first reported ethnic/lifestyle interaction
 - Diet-blood cholesterol connection
 - The Javanese-Dutch connection
 - Ancel Keys and the diet-blood cholesterol
 - Ancel Keys and the seven countries study (1)
 - Ancel Keys and the seven countries study (2)
 - Ancel Keys and the seven countries study (3)
 - Migration studies on nutrition and health (1)
 - Migration studies on nutrition and health (2)
 - Men participating in the Ni-Hon-San study
 - The westernization/globalization of lifestyles
 - Specialized genes in a global environment
 - The upcoupling of traditional genes
 - The Puerto Rican migration to the USA
 - Puerto Ricans living in the US mainland
 - Working hypothesis
 - Differences in allele frequencies
 - Summary
 - Thank you
 
Topics Covered
- Nutrition and evolution of brain development
 - Human diversity
 - Salivary amylase and starch digestion
 - Positive selection of lactase persistence
 - Food globalization
 - The diet-heart connection: nature versus nurture
 - Health disparities
 - Genetic predisposition
 - Gene-environment interactions
 
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Talk Citation
Ordovas, J. (2012, October 11). Ethnic differences in nutrition [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved November 4, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.69645/HQPI5271.Export Citation (RIS)
Publication History
- Published on October 11, 2012
 
Financial Disclosures
- Prof. Jose Ordovas has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.