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Zempleni (molecular nutrition, U. of Nebraska at Lincoln), Rucker (nutrition, U. of California at Davis Medical School), McCormick (nutritional biochemistry, Emory U.), and Sutie (emeritus, biochemistry, U. of Wisconsin at Madison) present a clinical reference on vitamins that summarize chemical, physiological, and nutritional relationships for all the recognized vitamins. It includes separate chapters for vitamins A, D, K, E, B6, and B12, as well as for niacin, riboflavin, thiamine, pantothenic acid, biotin, folic acid, choline, and ascorbic acid. It also includes contributions on bioorganic mechanisms important to coenzyme functions, vitamin-dependent modifications of chromatin (epigenetic events and genomic stability), accelerator mass spectrometry in the study of vitamins and mineral metabolism in humans, and dietary reference intakes for vitamins. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)