Polygenic Models Partially Predict Muscle Size and Strength but Not Low Muscle Mass in Older Women

Praval Khanal*, Christopher I. Morse, Lingxiao He, Adam J. Herbert, Gladys L. Onambélé-Pearson, Hans Degens, Martine Thomis, Alun G. Williams, Georgina K. Stebbings

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    Original languageEnglish
    Article number982
    JournalGenes
    Volume13
    Issue number6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished (VoR) - 30 May 2022

    Funding

    Funding: The current study was funded by the European Commission through MOVE-AGE, an Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate program (2011-0015) for Praval Khanal, with the project titled “The genetics of sarcopenia”. Acknowledgments: We would like to thank the European Commission, MOVE-AGE program for providing grants as a part of Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate programme (2011-0015) for conducting this study. We also like to thank all the volunteers who participated in this study.

    Keywords

    • polygenic model; predisposing allele; skeletal muscle phenotypes; low and high muscle mass

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