Running clubs, first marathons, and a watch telling you your VO2max.
Why this topic Running is the trend of the year, and it comes with a screen full of numbers people now want explained.
Solid lines are connections this site curates. Dashed lines mean the two ends share a research paper — worth knowing, and not a claim that one explains the other.
Counted in Europe PMC, where the title or abstract names both this topic and that rsID. The number is papers, not evidence of a cause.
ACTN3
Muscle fiber type ("sprinter gene")
35 papers →CYP1A2
Caffeine metabolism
7 papers →HFE
Iron overload risk (HFE H63D)
6 papers →FTO
Menarche (age at onset)
6 papers →FTO
Type 2 diabetes
4 papers →OPRM1
Opioid receptor sensitivity
2 papers →HFE
Iron overload risk (hereditary hemochromatosis)
2 papers →MTHFR
Folate metabolism (MTHFR C677T)
2 papers →APOE
Lewy body disease
2 papers →F5
Blood clotting risk (Factor V Leiden)
2 papers →BDNF
Smoking behavior
2 papers →ACADS
Metabolite levels
1 paper →ACE
Angiotensin-converting enzyme activity
1 paper →APOB
Cholesterol, total
1 paper →Europe PMC, title and abstract only, searched for “endurance performance”, “endurance athletes”, “marathon runners”, “running economy”, “VO2max”, “aerobic capacity”, “exercise-induced” alongside each published rsID. Full text was not counted: it returns every paper with an rsID buried in a supplementary table. Recounted monthly.
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Running and endurance. MyGeneLog™. https://www.mygenelog.com/topics/running
Running and endurance is this site's topic page for the genetics behind endurance performance — the running-club, first-marathon, VO2max-on-your-watch subject of the moment.
Only partly. A variant appearing here is co-mentioned with endurance research, not a score of your own aerobic capacity — training, age and the watch's own measurement error all move that number too.
Running is the trend of the year, and it arrives with a screen full of numbers — VO2max, running economy, aerobic capacity — that people now want explained.
Europe PMC is searched for terms like endurance performance, VO2max, aerobic capacity and marathon runners appearing in a paper's title or abstract alongside a published rsID, recounted every month.