Indicators of Anaerobic Capacity and Muscular Performance in Malay Female Athletes and Non-Athletes with ACE Gene I/D Polymorphism
Year: 2015
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Purpose: The aim of our study was to examine the association between the ACE I/D polymorphism, muscular strength and power, anaerobic capacity and fatigue index (FI) of athletes and non-athletes in Malay female population. Methods: Thirty three Malay female athletes who were university representative in Malaysia, and 33 Malay non-athletes were recruited in this study (aged 18-25 years old). Participants' hand grip strength and back and leg strength tests were performed. Meanwhile standing long jump power test was performed to estimate leg explosive power. Additionally, participants' Wingate mean power, peak power, anaerobic capacity, anaerobic power and FI were measured via Wingate test. Results: The frequency of II, ID and DD genotypes among athletes was 21.2% (n=7), 63.6% (n=21) and 15.2% (n=5) respectively, while that among non-athletes was 48.5% (n=16), 39.4% (n=13) and 12.1% (n=4) respectively. Athletes with ID genotype showed statistically significant greater jumping distance as indicator of explosive leg power compared to athletes with DD genotype (154.8 ± 16.6 cm versus 130.0 ± 23.8 cm, p=0.034). In athletes with DD genotype, it was found that there was statistically significant lower FI when compared to athletes with II and ID genotypes respectively (DD genotype: 6.3 ± 2.0 Watt·sec -1 ; II genotype: 9.6 ± 1.8 Watt·sec -1 ; ID genotype: 9.6 ± 1.4 Watt·sec -1 , p<0.01). Conclusions: The present study findings showed that ACE ID genotype is related to greater jump power and DD genotype is related to lower FI in Malay female athletes.
Institution: Universiti Sains Malaysia
Language: English
Subfield: Genetics
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1641213138