No association between variants in the ACE and angiotensin II receptor 1 genes and acute mountain sickness in Nepalese pilgrims to the Janai purnima festival at 4380 m

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 281-289

  Koehle, Michael S ^a,b   Wang, Pei ^b   Guenette, Jordan A ^b   Rupert, Jim L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness (AMS); Altitude; Altitude related illness; Angiotensin; Hypoxia; Nepalese

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN 1 RECEPTOR; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEPAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; NEPAL; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EDEMA; RECEPTOR, ANGIOTENSIN, TYPE 1; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33846189684     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2006.7.281     Document Type: Article

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