About the Authors

Tuomo Rankinen

Contributed equally to this work with: Tuomo Rankinen, Noriyuki Fuku

Affiliation Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Noriyuki Fuku

Contributed equally to this work with: Tuomo Rankinen, Noriyuki Fuku

Affiliation Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, Juntendo University, Chiba, Japan

Bernd Wolfarth

Affiliation Department of Sport Medicine Humboldt University and Charite University School of Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Guan Wang

Affiliation Centre for Sport and Exercise Science and Medicine (SESAME), University of Brighton, Eastbourne, United Kingdom

Mark A. Sarzynski

Affiliations Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America, School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States of America

Dmitry G. Alexeev

Affiliation Research Institute for Physical-Chemical Medicine, Moscow, Russia

Ildus I. Ahmetov

Affiliations Research Institute for Physical-Chemical Medicine, Moscow, Russia, Sport Technology Research Centre, Volga Region State Academy of Physical Culture, Sport and Tourism, Kazan, Russia

Marcel R. Boulay

Affiliation Department of Kinesiology, Laval University, Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada

Pawel Cieszczyk

Affiliations University of Szczecin, Department of Physical Education and Health Promotion, Szczecin, Poland, Academy of Physical Education and Sport, Department of Tourism and Recreation, Gdansk, Poland

Nir Eynon

Affiliation Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL), Victoria University, Victoria, Australia

Maxim L. Filipenko

Affiliations Pharmacogenomics Laboratory, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

Fleur C. Garton

Affiliations Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Institute of Neuroscience and Muscle Research, Childrens Hospital Westmead, Westmead, Australia

Edward V. Generozov

Affiliation Research Institute for Physical-Chemical Medicine, Moscow, Russia

Vadim M. Govorun

Affiliation Research Institute for Physical-Chemical Medicine, Moscow, Russia

Peter J. Houweling

Affiliations Pharmacogenomics Laboratory, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

Takashi Kawahara

Affiliation Department of Sports Medicine, Japan Institute of Sports Sciences, Tokyo, Japan

Elena S. Kostryukova

Affiliation Research Institute for Physical-Chemical Medicine, Moscow, Russia

Nickolay A. Kulemin

Affiliation Research Institute for Physical-Chemical Medicine, Moscow, Russia

Andrey K. Larin

Affiliation Research Institute for Physical-Chemical Medicine, Moscow, Russia

Agnieszka Maciejewska-Karłowska

Affiliation University of Szczecin, Department of Physical Education and Health Promotion, Szczecin, Poland

Motohiko Miyachi

Affiliation Department of Health Promotion and Exercise, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan

Carlos A. Muniesa

Affiliation Universidad Europea and Research Institute i+12, Madrid, Spain

Haruka Murakami

Affiliation Department of Health Promotion and Exercise, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan

Elena A. Ospanova

Affiliation Research Institute for Physical-Chemical Medicine, Moscow, Russia

Sandosh Padmanabhan

Affiliation College of Medicine, Veterinary & Life Sciences, Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Alexander V. Pavlenko

Affiliation Research Institute for Physical-Chemical Medicine, Moscow, Russia

Olga N. Pyankova

Affiliations Pharmacogenomics Laboratory, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine of SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

Catalina Santiago

Affiliation Universidad Europea and Research Institute i+12, Madrid, Spain

Marek Sawczuk

Affiliation University of Szczecin, Department of Physical Education and Health Promotion, Szczecin, Poland

Robert A. Scott

Affiliation MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Vladimir V. Uyba

Affiliation Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow, Russia

Thomas Yvert

Affiliation Universidad Europea and Research Institute i+12, Madrid, Spain

Louis Perusse

Affiliation Department of Kinesiology, Laval University, Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada

Sujoy Ghosh

Affiliation Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disorders Program, and Center for Computational Biology, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

Rainer Rauramaa

Affiliation Kuopio Research Institute of Exercise Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

Kathryn N. North

Affiliations Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Institute of Neuroscience and Muscle Research, Childrens Hospital Westmead, Westmead, Australia

Alejandro Lucia

Affiliation Universidad Europea and Research Institute i+12, Madrid, Spain

Yannis Pitsiladis

Affiliation Centre for Sport and Exercise Science and Medicine (SESAME), University of Brighton, Eastbourne, United Kingdom

Claude Bouchard

claude.bouchard@pbrc.edu

Affiliation Human Genomics Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

CB was a member of the Science Advisory board of Pathway Genomics from 2011–2014. CB was a member of the Advisory board of Nike-SPARK from 2012–2014. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB YP TR KNN NF AL PC IIA MAS. Performed the experiments: BW GW DGA MRB NE MLF FCG EVG VMG PJH TK ESK NAK AKL AMK MM CAM HM EAO SP AVP ONP CS MS RAS VVU TY LP RR. Analyzed the data: TR GW MAS PJH SG YP CB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FCG PJH PC NE KNN AL CAM CS TY IIA MLF VMG VVU AMK MS MM TK BW SG YP. Wrote the paper: CB TR YP AL KNN IIA NF PC MAS.