Article
Genetic determinism of fiber type proportion in human skeletal muscle.
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology - 1 Aug 1995
Simoneau J A, Bouchard C
Abstract excerpt
Skeletal muscle fiber type distribution is quite heterogeneous, with about 25% of North American Caucasian men and women having either less than 35% or more than 65% of type I fiber in their vastus lateralis muscle. To what extent human skeletal muscle fiber type proportion is under the control o...
Topics
- Analysis of Variance
- Biopsy
- Exercise
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Hip
- Humans
- Male
- Muscle Contraction
- Muscle Fibers, Fast-Twitch
- Muscle Fibers, Slow-Twitch
- Muscle, Skeletal
- Phenotype
- Twins, Dizygotic
- Twins, Monozygotic
- White People