Angiotensin-converting enzyme genotype and successful ascent to extreme high altitude

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 278-285

  Thompson, Julian ^a   Raitt, James ^b   Hutchings, Lynn ^c   Drenos, Fotios ^a   Bjargo, Eirik ^d   Loset, Are ^e   Grocott, Mike ^a   Montgomery, Hugh ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Klinikk for Alle   (Norway)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acclimatization; Altitude; Angiotensin converting enzyme; Genetics; Hypoxia

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BASE PAIRING; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE SPORT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRAVEL;

ADULT; ALLELES; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REFERENCE VALUES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 37249083933     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2007.1044     Document Type: Article

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