ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2012
Genetic inheritance effects on endurance and muscle strength: an update.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Association of ACE gene polymorphism with cardiovascular determinants of trained and untrained Iranian men.Genes and environment : the official journal of the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society · 2019Article
- Epigenetic supersimilarity of monozygotic twin pairs.Genome biology · 2018Article
- Increased aerobic capacity reduces susceptibility to acute high-fat diet-induced weight gain.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2016Article
- ACVR1B rs2854464 Is Associated with Sprint/Power Athletic Status in a Large Cohort of Europeans but Not Brazilians.PloS one · 2016Article
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Abstract
Top-level sport seems to play a natural Darwinian stage. The most outstanding athletes appear to emerge as a result of exogenous influences of nature and/or coincidence, namely, the contingency of practicing certain sport for which their talents best fit. This coincidence arises because certain individuals possess anatomical, metabolic, functional and behavioural characteristics that are precisely those required to excel in a given sport. Apart from the effects of training, there is strong evidence of genetic influence upon athletic performance. This article reviews the current state of knowledge regarding heritable genetic effects upon endurance and muscle strength, as reported by several twin and family studies. Due, probably, to the inaccuracy of the measurement procedures and sampling error, heritability estimates differ widely between studies. Even so, the genetic inheritence effects seem incontrovertible in most physical traits: ~40-70% for peak oxygen uptake and cardiac mass and structure, and ~30-90% for anaerobic power and capacity, ranging according to the metabolic category. Studies in development by several researchers at this present time seem to guarantee that future reviews will include twins and family studies concerning genes associated with the adaptive processes against hormetic agents, such as exercise, heat and oxidative stress.
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