Routledge Handbook of Sport and Exercise Systems Genetics

Section 1: General Systems Genetics

1. Why Study the Systems Genetics of Sport and Exercise?

2. Expansion of Knowledge and Advances in Genetics for Quantitative Analyses

3. Human Systems Genetic Modeling Used in Exercise

4. The Translation of Systems Genetics of Exercise to Everyday Life

Section 2: Systems Genetics of Physical Activity

5. Is Physical Activity Regulated by Genetics? Evidence from Animal Models

6. Is Physical Activity Regulated by Genetics? Evidence from Studies in Humans

7. The Evolution of Genetic Mechanisms Controlling Physical Activity

8. Neurogenetics of Motivation for Physical Activity

9. Peripheral Mechanisms Arising from Genetics that Regulate Activity

10. Toxicant and Dietary Exposures as Unique Environmental Factors that Affect the Genetic Regulation of Activity

Section 3: Systems Genetics of Exercise Endurance and Trainability

11. The Evolution of the Human Endurance Phenotype

12. Endurance Phenotype Primer

13. Heritability of Endurance Traits from Animal Research Models

14. Heritability of Endurance Traits from Human Research Models

15. Genetic Contributions to Cardiorespiratory Fitness

16. Genetic Contributions to Mitochondrial Traits

17. Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme and the Genomics of Endurance Performance

Section 4: Systems Genetics of Muscle Mass, Strength, and Trainability

18. Heritability of Muscle Size and Strength Traits

19. Genetic Contributions to Muscle Strength

20. Genetic Contributions to Skeletal Muscle Size

21. Genetic Contributions to Neuroendocrine Response to Resistance Training

22. Myostatin's Role in Genetic Control of Muscle Size and Strength

23. Alpha-Actinin-3's Role in the Genetic Control of Muscle Strength and Performance

Section 5: Systems Genetics of Sports Performance

24. Summary Findings on Genetics and Sport Performance

25. Using Elite Athletes as a Model for Genetic Research

26. Twin and Family Studies in Sport Performance

27. Sport Concussion Genetics

28. Systems Genetic Factors Underlying Soft Tissue Injury

29. Sex and Performance: Nature Versus Nurture

Section 6: The Ethics of Systems Genetics in Exercise and Sport

30. Race and Sports Performance

31. The Scientific and Ethical Challenges of Using Genetic Information to Predict Sport Performance

32. Gene Doping: Ethical Perspectives

33. Enhancing Evolution: The Transhuman Case For Gene Doping

34. The Ethics of Sex Testing in Sport

Section 7: Conclusions

35. Exercise Genomics, Epigenomics, and Transcriptomics: A Reality Check!

36. Afterword - Closing the Loop: Observations and Conclusions