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July 16, 2004

Genetics of Body Building

There's a public-consumption news story at Nature describing a study that seeks to identify SNPs for human strength-training performance.

The team has already tracked down 25 genetic signposts that characterize either the muscle-bound or the scrawny group, says Hoffman. He plans to publish the results later this year.

What's stopping this from being done with traits like IQ, which are seemingly easier to measure?

Posted by rikurzhen at 01:26 PM