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Endurance performance: genes or gene combinations?
International journal of sports medicine - 1 Jan 2009
Gómez-Gallego F, Santiago C, González-Freire M, Muniesa C A, Fernández Del Valle M, Pérez M, Foster C, Lucia A
Abstract excerpt
We assessed the possible association between variants of the genes encoding for the angiotensin-converting enzyme ( ACE) and alpha-actinin-3 ( ACTN3) (both individually and combined) and several endurance phenotypic traits, e.g., peak power output (PPO), ventilatory (VT) and respiratory compensation threshold (RCT), among others, in professional road cyclists and sedentary controls (n = 46 each). We applied an...
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