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Many Parents Opting to Test Their Kids’ Sporting Genes

More and more parents are opting to test their childrens DNA in order to ascertain which sport their kids are going to excel in.

Such genetics tests are popular in North America and Europe and while parents from the western countries ...Read More

Posted on : Wednesday, September 1, 2010 2:02 AM
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A balance in perspective, -especially in reports involving genetic screening and issues -is always healty. ACTN3 is neither the only factor of the many other yet-unknown factors influencing athletic performance, and nor it is the crucial precipitating factor towards it. The genetic variation of ACTN3 is a minor ingredient in a large and complex recipe called athletic performance. Bottomline thus goes: ACTN3 doesn't tell/ guarantee one whether or not the child will be a super-athlete. As the viewpoint of one the author [Daniel MacArthur] of the discovery of the link between ACTN3 and athletic performance shows, in the article- "The ACTN3 sports gene test: what can it really tell you?" http://scienceblogs.com/geneticfuture/2008/11/...
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