• DOI:10.1016/j.resp.2005.12.013
Corpus ID: 13711090

What makes a champion?: Explaining variation in human athletic performance

@article{Brutsaert2006WhatMA,
  title={What makes a champion?: Explaining variation in human athletic performance},
  author={T. Brutsaert and E. Parra},
  journal={Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology},
  year={2006},
  volume={151},
  pages={109-123}
}

• T. Brutsaert, E. Parra
• Published 2006
• Psychology, Medicine
• Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology

Variation in human athletic performance is determined by a complex interaction of socio-cultural, psychological, and proximate physiological factors. Human physiological trait variance has both an environmental and genetic basis, although the classic gene-environment dichotomy is clearly too simplistic to understand the full range of variation for most proximate determinants of athletic performance, e.g., body composition. In other words, gene and environment interact, not just over the short… Expand

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