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Volume 18 Supplement 8

Proceedings of the 34th FIMS World Sports Medicine Congress

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Ljubljana, Slovenia29/09/17-02/10/17

Edited by Nir Eynon, Yannis Pitsiladis and Alejandro Lucia

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  2. There has been considerable growth in basic knowledge and understanding of how genes are influencing response to exercise training and predisposition to injuries and chronic diseases. On the basis of this know...

    Authors: Nicole Vlahovich, David C. Hughes, Lyn R. Griffiths, Guan Wang, Yannis P. Pitsiladis, Fabio Pigozzi, Nobert Bachl and Nir Eynon
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18(Suppl 8):818
    Content type: Review Published on:

  3. The gene SMART (genes and the Skeletal Muscle Adaptive Response to Training) Study aims to identify genetic variants that predict the response to both a single session of High-Intensity Interval Exercise (HIIE...

    Authors: Xu Yan, Nir Eynon, Ioannis D. Papadimitriou, Jujiao Kuang, Fiona Munson, Oren Tirosh, Lannie O’Keefe, Lyn R. Griffiths, Kevin J. Ashton, Nuala Byrne, Yannis P. Pitsiladis and David J. Bishop
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18(Suppl 8):821
    Content type: Review Published on:

  4. Two common single nucleotide polymorphisms within the COL5A1 gene (SNPs; rs12722 C/T and rs3196378 C/A) have previously been associated with tendon and ligament pathologies. Given the high incidence of tendon and...

    Authors: Shane M. Heffernan, Liam P. Kilduff, Robert M. Erskine, Stephen H. Day, Georgina K. Stebbings, Christian J. Cook, Stuart M. Raleigh, Mark A. Bennett, Guan Wang, Malcolm Collins, Yannis P. Pitsiladis and Alun G. Williams
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18(Suppl 8):820
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. We recently described the genotype/phenotype features of all Spanish patients diagnosed with McArdle disease as of January 2011 (n = 239, prevalence of ~1/167,000) (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2012;83:322–8). S...

    Authors: Alfredo Santalla, Gisela Nogales-Gadea, Alberto Blázquez Encinar, Irene Vieitez, Adrian González-Quintana, Pablo Serrano-Lorenzo, Inés García Consuegra, Sara Asensio, Alfonsina Ballester-Lopez, Guillem Pintos-Morell, Jaume Coll-Cantí, Helios Pareja-Galeano, Jorge Díez-Bermejo, Margarita Pérez, Antoni L. Andreu, Tomàs Pinós…
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18(Suppl 8):819
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  7. While the influence of nature (genes) and nurture (environment) on elite sporting performance remains difficult to precisely determine, the dismissal of either as a contributing factor to performance is unwarr...

    Authors: Evelina Georgiades, Vassilis Klissouras, Jamie Baulch, Guan Wang and Yannis Pitsiladis
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18(Suppl 8):835
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  8. Recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEpo) can improve human performance and is therefore frequently abused by athletes. As a result, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) introduced the Athlete Biological Passpo...

    Authors: Guan Wang, Jérôme Durussel, Jonathan Shurlock, Martin Mooses, Noriyuki Fuku, Georgie Bruinvels, Charles Pedlar, Richard Burden, Andrew Murray, Brendan Yee, Anne Keenan, John D. McClure, Pierre-Edouard Sottas and Yannis P. Pitsiladis
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18(Suppl 8):817
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  9. Cardiorespiratory fitness (VO2max) is an excellent predictor of chronic disease morbidity and mortality risk. Guidelines recommend individuals undertake exercise training to improve VO2max for chronic disease red...

    Authors: Camilla J. Williams, Mark G. Williams, Nir Eynon, Kevin J. Ashton, Jonathan P. Little, Ulrik Wisloff and Jeff S. Coombes
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18(Suppl 8):831
    Content type: Review Published on:

  10. Epigenetic modification refers to heritable changes in gene function that cannot be explained by alterations in the DNA sequence. The current literature clearly demonstrates that the epigenetic response is hig...

    Authors: Elisa Grazioli, Ivan Dimauro, Neri Mercatelli, Guan Wang, Yannis Pitsiladis, Luigi Di Luigi and Daniela Caporossi
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18(Suppl 8):802
    Content type: Review Published on:

  11. Forkhead box O3A (FOXOA3) and apolipoprotein E (APOE) are arguably the strongest gene candidates to influence human exceptional longevity (EL, i.e., being a centenarian), but inconsistency exists among cohorts. E...

    Authors: Noriyuki Fuku, Roberto Díaz-Peña, Yasumichi Arai, Yukiko Abe, Hirofumi Zempo, Hisashi Naito, Haruka Murakami, Motohiko Miyachi, Carlos Spuch, José A. Serra-Rexach, Enzo Emanuele, Nobuyoshi Hirose and Alejandro Lucia
    Citation: BMC Genomics 2017 18(Suppl 8):803
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