Table 1.

Some key milestones in genomics, genetics, and exercise biology

1971	Vassilis Klissouras/Twin Studies of $\stackrel{·}{\mathrm{V}}{\mathrm{O}}_{2}max$ [17]
1984	Claude Bouchard/Twin Studies of trainability of $\stackrel{·}{\mathrm{V}}{\mathrm{O}}_{2}max$ [43]
1999	Claude Bouchard/Heritage Family Study [44]
2000	Hugh Montgomery/Candidate Gene Approach – ACE [49]
2001	The Human Genome Project - Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome (http://web.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/index.shtml)
2003	The ENCODE Project – large public research consortium aimed at identifying all functional elements in the human genome sequence (www.encodeproject.org)
2003	Kathy North/ACTN3 Speed Gene [50]
2007	Yannis Pitsiladis/Genetics of East African Runners [45]
2008	The 1000 Genomes Project – the largest public catalogue containing human variation and genotype data (www.internationalgenome.org)
2016	GAMES/The first GWAS of athletic performance [52]
2016	The Athlome Project – call for international collaborated efforts in genetic discovery for elite human performance, muscle injury prevention and adaptive training [53]

*see Bouchard and Malina, 2014 [66] for a detailed account of the history of genomics, genetics, and exercise biology