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## Abstract It is feared that the use of gene transfer technology to enhance athletic performance, the practice that has received the term ‘gene doping’, may soon become a real threat to the world of sport. As recognised by the anti‐doping community, gene doping, like doping in any form, undermines principles of fair play in sport and most importantly, involves major health risks to athletes who partake in gene doping. One attraction of gene doping for such athletes and their entourage lies in the apparent difficulty of detecting its use. Since the realisation of the threat of gene doping to sport in 2001, the anti‐doping community and scientists from different disciplines concerned with potential misuse of gene therapy technologies for performance enhancement have focused extensive efforts on developing robust methods for gene doping detection which could be used by the World Anti‐Doping Agency to monitor athletes and would meet the requirements of a legally defensible test. Here we review the approaches and technologies which are being evaluated for the detection of gene doping, as well as for monitoring the efficacy of legitimate gene therapy, in relation to the detection target

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Author

Anna Baoutina; Ian E. Alexander; John E. J. Rasko; Kerry R. Emslie

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1099-498X)

Published

2007

Language

EN

Field

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)