Association Between Total Genotype Score and Muscle Injuries in Top-Level Football Players: a Pilot Study.

Myosotis MassiddaLaura FlorePaolo CugiaFrancesco PirasMarco ScorcuNaoki KikuchiPawel CięszczykAgnieszka Maciejewska-SkrendoFilippo ToccoCarla Maria Calò

Published in: Sports medicine - open (2024)

These preliminary data suggest that carrying a high number of "protective" gene variants could influence an individual's susceptibility to developing muscle injuries in football. Adapting the training load parameters to the athletes' genetic profile represents today the new frontier of the methodology of training.

Keyphrases

high school
copy number
skeletal muscle
genome wide
virtual reality
electronic health record
big data
gene expression
genome wide identification
transcription factor