Rıfat Gülmez

Beyond VO2max: Integrated Physiological Phenotyping and Candidate-Gene Analysis of Elite Versus Recreational Endurance Runners

Background: Endurance performance reflects integrated cardiorespiratory, metabolic and musculoskeletal traits with substantial heritability, yet sex-balanced studies that simultaneously deep-phenotype athletes and genotype candidate loci against trained comparators remain scarce....