ReviewMedicine and science in sports and exercise2018
Biological/Genetic Regulation of Physical Activity Level: Consensus from GenBioPAC.
Review in Medicine and science in sports and exercise, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
55 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 112 citations in OpenAlex.
- An individual participant data meta-analysis of how physical activity relates to affective well-being in daily life.Nature human behaviour · 2026Pooled it
- Genome-wide association analyses of physical activity and sedentary behavior provide insights into underlying mechanisms and roles in disease prevention.Nature genetics · 2022Pooled it
- Genetic variants related to physical activity or sedentary behaviour: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2021Pooled it
- Gender-related perceptions among healthcare providers and mothers in a pregnancy and early childhood obesity prevention intervention in Shanghai, China.International journal for equity in health · 2026Article
- Data-driven leisure-time physical activity trajectories of over 46 years and their associations with cognition in nonagenarians: a cohort study.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026Article
- Developing a Taijiquan exercise pattern for Chinese older adults: a qualitative study based on the exercise commitment model.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Validation of Taijiquan (Tai Chi) Exercise Commitment Scale for Chinese Elderly (TECS-CE).Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Genetic Determinants of Leisure-Time Physical Activity in the Taiwanese Population: A Genome-Wide Association Study.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2025Article
- Importance, unique aspects and guidelines, and building blocks of early childhood physical activity from a socioecological perspective.Sports medicine and health science · 2025Review
- Maintaining Stable, Adequate Sleep: Instrumental to Cardiometabolic Health.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Leisure-Time Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Biological Aging: Evidence From Genetic Correlation and Mendelian Randomization Analyses.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2025Article
- Genome-Wide Genetic Analysis of Dropout in a Controlled Exercise Intervention in Sedentary Adults With Overweight or Obesity and Cardiometabolic Disease.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2024Article
- Genetic confounding in the association of early motor development with childhood and adolescent exercise behavior.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
- Estrogen-mediated individual differences in female rat voluntary running behavior.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2024Article
- Large changes in detected selection signatures after a selection limit in mice bred for voluntary wheel-running behavior.PloS one · 2024Article
- Establishment of dry-chemistry-based reference intervals of routine liver function tests for the adult population of Gandaki Province, Nepal.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Maternal upbringing and selective breeding for voluntary exercise behavior modify patterns of DNA methylation and expression of genes in the mouse brain.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2023Article
- Selectively breeding for high voluntary physical activity in female mice does not bestow inherent characteristics that resemble eccentric remodeling of the heart, but the mini-muscle phenotype does.Sports medicine and health science · 2023Article
- Social determinants of health in non-communicable diseases prevention policies in South Africa.Curationis · 2023Article
- A Social and Ethical Framework for Providing Health Information Obtained from Combining Genetics and Fitness Tracking Data.Technology in society · 2023Article
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12 authors at 8 institutions in 5 countries.
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Abstract
purposePhysical activity unquestionably maintains and improves health; however, physical activity levels globally are low and not rising despite all the resources devoted to this goal. Attention in both the research literature and the public policy domain has focused on social-behavioral factors; however, a growing body of literature suggests that biological determinants play a significant role in regulating physical activity levels. For instance, physical activity level, measured in various manners, has a genetic component in both humans and nonhuman animal models. This consensus article, developed as a result of an American College of Sports Medicine-sponsored round table, provides a brief review of the theoretical concepts and existing literature that supports a significant role of genetic and other biological factors in the regulation of physical activity.
conclusionsFuture research on physical activity regulation should incorporate genetics and other biological determinants of physical activity instead of a sole reliance on social and other environmental determinants.
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