Welcome to the
Joint Irish Nutrigenomics Organisation
The Joint Irish Nutrigenomics Organisation (JINGO incorporates four universities working together to create a National Nutrition Phenotype Database. The project is funded by the Department of Agriculture's Food Institutional Research Measure. The database will extend and deepend traditional dietary survey databases by combining dietary, physical activity, body measurement and lifestyle data with nutrigenomics technology data from three projects:
- National Adult Nutrition Survey (NANS) led by University College Cork (1500 adults 18+ yrs)
- Trinity-Ulster Department of Agriculture Project (TUDA) conducted by Trinity College Dublin and University of Ulster (6000 adults 60+ yrs)
- Metabolic challenge study (MECHE) led by University College Dublin (200 adults 18 - 60 yrs)
