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SUBMITTER: Eynon N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3420864 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Eynon Nir N Ruiz Jonatan R JR Femia Pedro P Pushkarev Vladimir P VP Cieszczyk Pawel P Maciejewska-Karlowska Agnieszka A Sawczuk Marek M Dyatlov Dmitry A DA Lekontsev Evgeny V EV Kulikov Leonid M LM Birk Ruth R Bishop David J DJ Lucia Alejandro A
PloS one 20120816 8
The ACTN3 R577X polymorphism (rs1815739) is a strong candidate to influence elite athletic performance. Yet, controversy exists in the literature owing to between-studies differences in the ethnic background and sample size of the cohorts, the latter being usually low, which makes comparisons difficult. In this case:control genetic study we determined the association between elite athletic status and the ACTN3 R577X polymorphism within three cohorts of European Caucasian men, i.e. Spanish, Polis ...[more]