Nutritional genomics : concepts, tools and expectations / Hannelore Daniel and Uwe Wenzel -- Nuclear receptors : an overview / Ana Aranda and Angel Pascual -- Mechanism of action of cancer therapeutic potential of retinoids / Emilie Voltz, Emmanuelle Germain, and Hinrich Gronemeyer -- Nuclear receptors and the control of gene expression by fatty acids / Jean-Paul Pégorier -- Cellular adaptation to amino acid availability : mechanisms involved in the regulation of gene expression / Alain Bruhat [and others] -- Transcriptional regulation of hepatic genes by insulin and glucose / Catherine Postic and Fabienne Foufelle -- PPARs : lipid sensors that regulate cell differentiation processes / Frédéric Vamat [and others] -- Advances in selenoprotein expression : patterns and individual variation / Catherine Méplan, Vasileios Pagmantidis, and John E. Hesketh -- PPARs in atherosclerosis / Hélène Duez, Jean-Charles Fruchard, and Bart Staels -- Protein synthesis and cancer / Andreas G. Bader and Peter K. Vogt -- Mutations in the PPARy gene relevant for diabetes and the metabolic syndrome / Markku Laakso -- Regulation of lipogenic genes in obesity / Stéphane Mandard and Sander Kersten -- The genetics of type 2 diabetes / Catherine Stevenson, Inês Barrso, and Nicholas Wareham -- Gene variants and obesity / Günter Brönner [and others] -- Gene polymorphisms, nutrition, and the inflammatory response / Robert F. Grimble -- Gene variants, nutritional parameters, and hypertension / Maolian Gong and Norbert Hübner -- Gene variants, nutrition, and cancer / Julian Little and LInda Sharp -- Taste receptors and their variants / Bernd Bufe and Wolfgang Meyerhof --Cancer and gene variants in enzymes metabolizing dietary xenobiotics / Susan Nowell and Fred F. Kadlubar.