
Sports, Exercise, and Nutritional Genomics
Current Status and Future Directions
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Description
Key Features
- Effectively synthesizes key themes across molecular aspects of exercise and sports sciences
- Provides a knowledge base for future translation of omics solutions to talent identification, individualized training, and nutrition
- Features contributions from international experts (researchers and clinicians) in the subject area
Readership
Active sports and exercise scientists, basic and translational researchers, clinicians, postgraduates, and students in the areas of human genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, metagenomics, exercise and sports physiology, sports medicine, behavioral genetics, physical therapy, bioinformatics, and molecular biology; medical students and residents; medical geneticists; pharmacologists; nutritionists; health and fitness experts
Table of Contents
SECTION I. SPORTS GENETICS
1. Introduction to genetics of sport and exercise
2. Heritability estimates of physical performance-related phenotypes
3. Genes and power athlete status
4. Genetic profile of elite endurance athletes
5. Genetics of team sports
6. Variation of Mitochondrial DNA and elite athletic performance
7. Psychogenetics and sportSECTION II. EXERCISE GENETICS AND MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY
8. Genes and response to aerobic training
9. Effect of gene polymorphisms on sensitivity to resistance training
10. Exercise and DNA methylation in skeletal muscle
11. Genes and individual responsiveness to exercise-induced fat lossSECTION III. GENETICS OF MUSCULOSKELETAL EXERCISE-RELATED PHENOTYPES
12. Genetic and epigenetic determinants of muscle mass
13. Genetics of flexibility
14. Genetics of muscle fiber compositionSECTION IV. GENETICS OF SPORT-RELATED DISEASES AND MEDICAL CONDITIONS
15. Genetics of musculoskeletal soft tissue injuries: Current status, challenges, and future directions
16. Genetics of sport-related concussion
17. The genetic association with exercise-induced muscle damage and muscle injury riskSECTION V. NUTRIGENETICS, PHARMACOGENETICS AND METABOLOMICS IN SPORT AND EXERCISE
18. Personalized sports nutrition: Role of nutrients in athletic performance
19. Metabolomics and proteomics as tools to advance the understanding of exercise responses: The emerging role of gut microbiota in athlete health and performance
20. The future of genetically based nutritional and pharmacological ergogenic aids in sport
21. Perspectives of personalized weight loss interventions based on exercise genomics, nutrigenetic, epigenetic, and metagenomic data in fitness and sport
Product details
- No. of pages: 606
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: August 25, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128161937
- eBook ISBN: 9780128163405
About the Editors
Debmalya Barh

Affiliations and Expertise
Ildus Ahmetov

Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
Latest reviews
(Total rating for all reviews)
Biochemist Thu May 21 2020
Quite ok
A good book, needs some editing, as a textbook it could use a better introductory section, also needs another proofreading, but otherwise a good overview of very novel data.
Alice Tue Oct 15 2019
Thanks
I've been looking so long for the definitive answer about how genetic can involved in athletes performance, and thankfully I found this book.
Joe Sun Sep 15 2019
Nice
A lot done, more to do... Still far from practice. Anyway thanks to the authors!
Dr. R. Sun Sep 01 2019
Must-read sport science book
This is a must-read book for anyone wants to understand interindividual variability and individual responses to exercise training.