Associations of Brain-Derived Neurotropic Factor rs6265 Gene Polymorphism with Personality Dimensions among Athletes
, Jolanta Chmielowiec 2, Krzysztof Chmielowiec 2, Marta Niewczas 3, Milena Lachowicz 4, Paweł Cięszczyk 1, Jolanta Masiak 5, Aleksandra Strońska-Pluta 6, Monika Michałowska-Sawczyn 1, Ewelina Maculewicz 7 and Anna Grzywacz 1,*
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
First of all, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to review your work. I think your work is of great interest and has great applications, as increasingly in sport, whether amateur or professional, psychological aspects are more and more important. However, I believe that the use of a tool that analyses so many psychological aspects may provide less relevant data than tools that analyse more specific psychological aspects. For example, you can focus your data on anxiety, one of the traits that most affect sports performance. For this there are more specific instruments, such as the CSAI 2 Test (Martens) or the STAI Test. I believe that in this way, the results you obtain may have more significance in your results.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer, Thank you for your effort to read, analyse and give your opinion on our Manuscript. We also thank you for expressing your positive opinion about our work.We also thank you for your suggestion regarding psychological testing.We had a particularly great discussion and paid our attention on more specific instruments, such as the CSAI 2 (Martens) Test or the STAI Test.As our research studies are still ongoing and we are expanding our study group and the number of genes we want to analyse, there is a real chance that we will also use more specific instruments that the Reviewer wished to mention. This is a valuable comment and we want to thank you very much for it.
Reviewer 2 Report
The subject of this manuscript is relevant and important findings are presented. However, the presentation of the manuscript must be improved. I am indicating in the attached file my comments and suggestions.
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Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
Thank you for your feedback and the corrections made in the PDF file. Consequently, we have corrected the Manuscript in a WORD document using the revision editing mode.
With best regards,
Authors
Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
Congratulations. The manuscript was improved and I am recommending its acceptance in the current version.
