title: Physical activity, physical fitness, gross motor coordination, and metabolic syndrome: focus of twin research in Portugal.
abstract: A very brief history of Portuguese twin research in sport and human movement sciences is presented. Recruitment procedures, zygosity determination, and phenotypes are given for twins and their parents from the mainland, and Azores and Madeira archipelagos. Preliminary findings are mostly related to physical activity, health-related physical fitness, gross motor coordination, neuromotor development, and metabolic syndrome traits.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Sport, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. jmaia@fade.up.pt
authors.forename: José António Ribeiro
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Maia
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: Duarte Luis
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: de Freitas
authors.forename: Martine
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Thomis
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome; D009043:Motor Activity; D011174:Portugal; D012042:Registries; D013177:Sports; D014429:Twins, Dizygotic / Q000235:genetics*; D014430:Twins, Monozygotic / Q000235:genetics*