Why this topic Youth sport genetic testing is marketed hard and regulated barely at all.
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What this topic connects to
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.
Variants that share a paper with this
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.
rs1815739
ACTN3
Muscle fiber type ("sprinter gene")
26 papers →rs6265
BDNF
Smoking behavior
5 papers →rs9939609
FTO
Menarche (age at onset)
5 papers →rs1799945
HFE
Iron overload risk (HFE H63D)
3 papers →rs671
ALDH2
Alcohol flush reaction
3 papers →rs2282679
GC
Vitamin D levels
2 papers →rs429358
APOE
Lewy body disease
2 papers →rs7832552
TRHR
Body mass (lean)
2 papers →rs1021188
RANKL
Bone mineral density
1 paper →rs143384
GDF5
Height
1 paper →rs174546
FADS1
HDL cholesterol
1 paper →rs1799971
OPRM1
Opioid receptor sensitivity
1 paper →rs1800562
HFE
Iron overload risk (hereditary hemochromatosis)
1 paper →rs1801131
MTHFR
Folate metabolism (MTHFR A1298C)
1 paper →rs1801133
MTHFR
Folate metabolism (MTHFR C677T)
1 paper →rs2920503
PPARG
LDL cholesterol
1 paper →rs3736228
LRP5
Bone mineral density
1 paper →rs3829251
NADSYN1
Vitamin D levels
1 paper →rs4870044
ESR1
Bone mineral density (spine)
1 paper →rs762551
CYP1A2
Caffeine metabolism
1 paper →How this was counted
Europe PMC, title and abstract only, searched for “elite athlete”, “sports performance”, “muscle strength”, “injury risk” 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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Questions about Sport and performance
What is Sport and performance?
Sport and performance is this site's topic page for athletic-genetics research — the talent tests sold to parents, and what the underlying research actually supports.
Can a genetic test predict whether a child will become an elite athlete?
No. Talent tests are sold to parents on the promise of prediction, but the underlying research does not support picking a future elite athlete from a variant — a co-mention here is not a talent score.
Why is sport and performance a topic on this site now?
Youth sport genetic testing is marketed hard and regulated barely at all, which is exactly the gap this page exists to be honest about.
How does this site decide which variants are linked to sport and performance?
Europe PMC is searched for elite athlete, sports performance, muscle strength or injury risk appearing in a paper's title or abstract alongside a published rsID, recounted every month.