Genome-wide association study identifying variants related to performance and injury in high-performance athletes.

ABSTRACT: A growing body of evidence exists supporting the role that genetic variation plays in athletic performance and injury. This study sought to identify genetic variants associated with performance and lower limb musculoskeletal injury in a high-level athletic cohort. A total of 126 Estonian National Team members (Olympic athletes and participants of International Championships) (104 males, 82.5%) underwent a genome-wide association analysis between 2017 and 2018, to identify single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with performance and/or injury. The athletic cohort was stratified within each sport based on performance and whether they were a medalist (n = 29) or not (n = 97), whether they sustained an injury (n = 47) or not (n = 79), and the type of injur

SUBMITTER: Ebert JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10792416 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature