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Genetic factors associated with exercise performance in atmospheric hypoxia.
Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) - 1 May 2015
Hennis Philip J, O'Doherty Alasdair F, Levett Denny Z H, Grocott Michael P W, Montgomery Hugh M
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: 'Natural selection' has been shown to have enriched the genomes of high-altitude native populations with genetic variants of advantage in this hostile hypoxic environment. In lowlanders who ascend to altitude, genetic factors may also contribute to the substantial interindividual variation in exercise performance noted at altitude. We performed a systematic literature review to identify...
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