Association between human polymorphic DNA markers and hypoxia adaptation in Sherpa detected by a preliminary genome scan

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 630-638

  Malacrida, Sandro ^a   Katsuyama, Y ^b   Droma, Y ^c   Basnyat, B ^d   Angelini, C ^a   Ota, M ^c   Danieli, G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NEPAL INTERNATIONAL CLINIC   (Nepal)

Author keywords

DNA markers; Genome scan; Hypobaric hypoxia; Sherpa

Indexed keywords

ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN; ACYLTRANSFERASE; ALPHA3 INTEGRIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARRIER PROTEIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA MARKER; EXOCYST; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; OXYGEN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1; PROTEASOME; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SARCOGLYCAN; TACHYKININ;

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; MALE; NEPAL; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANOXIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEPAL; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 34447647093     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: 14691809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2007.00358.x     Document Type: Article

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