Flex Wheeler and the myostatin gene

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Some time ago, I made a small comment about Flex Wheller and his mutated myostatin gene. This was met with resistance from a certain individual who claimed something to the effect that this couldn’t be. I emailed Ken directly on Sep. 18th and today (Nov. 7th) recieved a pleasent respons:

Here was my E-Mail:

Hello Ken,
I know you are a busy man, but I would like to quickly ask you a question that would settle some debates about your genetics on many internet-based message boards.
In this article http://www.musclephotos.com/myogene.html , the writer claims that you underwent some tests to perhaps determine why you could make significant gains in muscle hypertrophy and why your muscle fibers were significantly more dense than the general populus. It claims that your “myostatin” gene is mutated at the “exon 2” position and that your IGF-1 gene is unusual as well. Is this article completely fabricated, or did you actually undergo tests as this article claims? If so, are the results listed here accurate? Thanks in advance.

And here is Ken’s response:

Yes, it is ture I did undergo tests. All that you read about me and the myostatin gene is ture.
Have a bless day…

Thank you
Flex Wheeler

So for any individuals who are unsure whether the study Balco Labs did on Ken’s myostatin was true, it is.

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Hey, if Flex say’s it’s ture then Goddamnitt, it’s ture.

“Do you spell it with a “V” or a “W”?’ inquired the judge. ‘That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord’…”

~ Charles Dickens

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It’s not true; it’s ture.

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uhh actually its “ture.”

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Oh, it’s ture, it’s ture.

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Yeah and he also can’t spell true…

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Read “Genomics for the dorks” here on t-mag. It’s a thread. Justin Wanker did a good job describing the differences between whites and blacks, genetically speaking.

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And the spelling nazis strike again.

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LOL I didn’t realize Ken spelled “true” wrong. Haha… what a silly guy.

I’m familiar with the geonomics thread. In fact, I believe it was started because I did mention Flex’s myostatin mutation. I do understand there are differences between different ethnic groups, but sometimes people in certain ethnic groups do have unusual mutations in genes as was observed by the scientists who tested Ken.

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Man, I didn’t believe this, but it’s actually published!

Frequent sequence variation in the human myostatin (GDF8) gene as a marker for analysis of muscle-related phenotypes.
Ferrell RE, Conte V, Lawrence EC, Roth SM, Hagberg JM, Hurley BF.
Genomics. 1999 Dec 1;62(2):203-7.

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All you mofos who said Justin Wanker was wrong can go apologize.

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And the spelling nazis strike again.

Yes, we generally mobilize after the non-proofing gestapo start to gain too much ground.