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Yannis P. Pitsiladis

Professor and Head, Hong Kong Baptist University
Verified email at hkbu.edu.hk
Cited by 16297

Kenyan and Ethiopian distance runners: what makes them so good?

RL Wilber, YP Pitsiladis - International journal of sports …, 2012 - journals.humankinetics.com
Since the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Kenyan and Ethiopian runners have dominated the
middle-and longdistance events in athletics and have exhibited comparable dominance in …

[HTML][HTML] Physical activity in the prevention of human diseases: role of epigenetic modifications

E Grazioli, I Dimauro, N Mercatelli, G Wang, Y Pitsiladis… - BMC genomics, 2017 - Springer
Epigenetic modification refers to heritable changes in gene function that cannot be
explained by alterations in the DNA sequence. The current literature clearly demonstrates …

Athlome Project Consortium: a concerted effort to discover genomic and other “omic” markers of athletic performance

YP Pitsiladis, M Tanaka, N Eynon… - Physiological …, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
Despite numerous attempts to discover genetic variants associated with elite athletic
performance, injury predisposition, and elite/world-class athletic status, there has been …

Foot strike patterns and collision forces in habitually barefoot versus shod runners

DE Lieberman, M Venkadesan, WA Werbel, AI Daoud… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Humans have engaged in endurance running for millions of years 1, but the modern running
shoe was not invented until the 1970s. For most of human evolutionary history, runners were …

[HTML][HTML] IOC consensus statement: dietary supplements and the high-performance athlete

RJ Maughan, LM Burke, J Dvorak… - … journal of sport …, 2018 - journals.humankinetics.com
Nutrition usually makes a small but potentially valuable contribution to successful
performance in elite athletes, and dietary supplements can make a minor contribution to this …

Daily energy expenditure through the human life course

H Pontzer, Y Yamada, H Sagayama, PN Ainslie… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Total daily energy expenditure (“total expenditure”) reflects daily energy needs and is a
critical variable in human health and physiology, but its trajectory over the life course is …

[HTML][HTML] Objectively measured physical activity in European children: the IDEFICS study

K Konstabel, T Veidebaum, V Verbestel… - International journal of …, 2014 - nature.com
Objectives: To provide sex-and age-specific percentile values for levels of physical activity
(PA) and sedentary time of European children aged 2.0–10.9 years from eight European …

[HTML][HTML] Association analysis of the ACTN3 R577X polymorphism and complex quantitative body composition and performance phenotypes in adolescent Greeks

CN Moran, N Yang, MES Bailey, A Tsiokanos… - European Journal of …, 2007 - nature.com
The functional allele (577R) of ACTN3, which encodes human α-actinin-3, has been
reported to be associated with elite athletic status and with response to resistance training …

[HTML][HTML] Physical fitness reference standards in European children: the IDEFICS study

D Miguel-Etayo, L Gracia-Marco, FB Ortega… - International journal of …, 2014 - nature.com
Results: Our results show that boys performed better than girls in speed, lower-and upper-
limb strength and cardiorespiratory fitness, and girls performed better in balance and …

Demographic characteristics of elite Kenyan endurance runners

VO Onywera, RA Scott, MK Boit… - Journal of sports …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Kenyan athletes have dominated international distance running in recent years.
Explanations for their success include favourable physiological characteristics, which could …