TY - JOUR 
A1 - Muniesa Ferrero, Carlos Alberto
AU - González-Freire, Marta
AU - Santiago Dorrego, Catalina
AU - Lao, José I.
AU - Buxens, Amaya
AU - Rubio, Juan Carlos
AU - Martín, Miguel Ángel
AU - Arenas, Joaquín
AU - Gómez Gallego, Félix
AU - Lucía Mulas, Alejandro
T1 - World-class performance in lightweight rowing: is it genetically influenced? A comparison with cyclists, runners and non-athletes
Y1 - 2010
SN - 14730480
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11268/928
AB - In this study, genotype frequencies of several polymorphisms that are candidates to influence sports performance (ie, ACTN3 R577X, ACE ID, PPARGC1A Gly482Ser, AMPD1 C34T, CKMM 985bp/1170bp and GDF8 (myostatin) K153R) were compared in 123 nonathletic controls, 50 professional cyclists, 52 Olympic-class runners and 39 world-class rowers (medallists in world championships, lightweight category). Significant differences in genotype distributions among the groups were not found except for the ACE gene, that is, lower (p<0.05) proportion of II in rowers (10.3%) than in the total subject population (22.3%). In summary, sports performance is likely polygenic with the combined effect of hundreds of genetic variants, one possibly being the ACE ID polymorphism (at least in the sports studied here), but many others remain to be identified.
KW - Genética humana
LA - eng
ER -