BACKGROUND: In recent years, researchers have demonstrated that, from the perspective of human genetics, human muscles short-term service ability is largely controlled by genes, and body muscle strength and anaerobic endurance have a higher heritability.
OBJECTIVE: To review some findings between genetic factors and muscle short-time service ability in order to search new ways and ideas for the further research.
METHODS: A computer-based search of CNKI, PubMed and Medline databases was performed for articles published between 1990 and 2011 regarding genetic studies of muscle short-time service ability. Finally, 35 papers were included in result analysis.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The article summarizes the early animal experiments and recent human trials. The results from the genetic research of human muscle short-time service ability achieved an amazing consistency and exhibited a high positive rate. Thus, individual differences existing in the human muscle short-time service ability reflects the DNA sequence and its differences in expression regulation to a large extent. Along with the development of molecular biology techniques, these studies provide a strong theoretical basis for further genetic research of gene-related muscle short-time service ability.