Genome-Wide Association Study of Genetic Variants Associated with Serum Albumin Levels in Chinese Winter Sports Athletes.

Tao Mei, Yanchun Li, Dapeng Bao, Xiaolin Yang, Zihong He

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Tao MeiChina Institute of Sport and Health Science, Beijing Sport University, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3438-7157

Yanchun LiChina Institute of Sport and Health Science, Beijing Sport University, Beijing 100084, China.

Dapeng BaoChina Institute of Sport and Health Science, Beijing Sport University, Beijing 100084, China.

Xiaolin YangChina Institute of Sport and Health Science, Beijing Sport University, Beijing 100084, China.

Zihong HeBiological Science Research Center, China Institute of Sport Science, Beijing 100084, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0241-726X

Funding

Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project of the Ministry of Education of China 25YJCZH186National Key R&D Program of China 2018YFF0300402

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Abstract

This study aimed to explore genetic variants associated with serum albumin (ALB) levels in Chinese winter sports athletes using genome-wide association analysis (GWAS) and to investigate potential regulatory mechanisms using bioinformatics annotation. A total of 382 Chinese winter sports athletes were recruited. ALB levels were compared between elite and non-elite athletes. GWAS was conducted using PLINK v1.9, with ALB as the phenotype and sex, age, and principal components as covariates. Associated SNPs were annotated using GTEx and SNPnexus. No significant differences were observed in ALB levels between elite and non-elite male or female athletes, and ALB levels in all groups followed a normal distribution. We identified 113 SNPs reaching a suggestive significance threshold (

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athlete geneticsblood biomarkerselite athletesindividual differencessingle nucleotide polymorphismtraining monitoring

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PMID41744659

DOI10.3390/biology15040350

PMCPMC12938714

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