Comment: genetic test available for sports performance
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Comment: genetic test available for sports performance.
F or the first time, we can now obtain a cheap and non-invasive genetic test, which tells us not if we have a disease or whether we are related to our parents, but what kind of sports we are likely to be good at. For AUD$110, the Australian company Genetic Technologies will test a cheek swab for the R577X variant of the ACTN3 gene. This gene normally produces the protein a-actinin-3, which help...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Sports Medicine
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0306-3674
DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.2005.017954