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Our health is greatly influenced by our genome and diet. It is difficult to study metabolic phenotypes as a function of diet and genetic variation in humans, because such studies require the collection of large sets of data under precisely controlled conditions.

Dr. Walhout recently wrote a post on the motivations of and the process behind our WormPaths paper (in press at Genetics). This post is featured on the Genetics Society of America “Genes to Genomes” blog. Below is an excerpt.

Dr. Walhout provides perspective in the April 20 issue of Science on the latest Research Article from a longstanding collaboration between Brenda Andrews and Charles Boone at the University of Toronto, and Chad Myers from the University of Minnesota.