Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and Vitamers.

Abstract

Animal and human biochemistry and physiology developed over millennia under widely varying environments and available sources of nutrition. The genome evolved to optimize survival and reproduction in surprisingly diverse ways. A clinically important aspect of this evolution is that SNP manifestations changed to match the variants in food molecules required for life such as vitamins. This editorial discusses the interaction between SNPs and vitamers, the varied forms in which vitamins occur.