CALL FOR PAPERS Physiological Genomics of Exercise in Health and Disease Genetic influence on exercise-induced changes in physical function among mobility-limited older adults
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Thomas W. Buford, Fang-Chi Hsu, Tina E. Brinkley, Christy S. Carter, Timothy S. Church, John A. Dodson, Bret H. Goodpaster, Mary M. McDermott, Barbara J. Nicklas, Veronica Yank, Julie A. Johnson, and Marco Pahor, for the LIFE Research Group University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida; Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Division of Aging, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; and University of Florida, College of Pharmacy, Gainesville, Florida
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