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Increased racing performance among whippet dogs
Performance-enhancing polymorphisms define an emerging and exciting area of science. In this issue of PLoS Genetics, Mosher et al. identify a variant of the myostatin gene that leads to increased racing performance among whippet dogs (shown here) by increasing muscle mass. This is the first of what will presumably be many genetic associations identified between specific polymorphisms and athletic performance (see Mosher et al., e79).
Image Credit: Photograph by Tyrone C. Spady.
Citation: (2007) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 3(5) May 2007. PLoS Genet 3(5): ev03.i05. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v03.i05
Published: May 25, 2007
Copyright: © 2007 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Performance-enhancing polymorphisms define an emerging and exciting area of science. In this issue of PLoS Genetics, Mosher et al. identify a variant of the myostatin gene that leads to increased racing performance among whippet dogs (shown here) by increasing muscle mass. This is the first of what will presumably be many genetic associations identified between specific polymorphisms and athletic performance (see Mosher et al., e79).
Image Credit: Photograph by Tyrone C. Spady.