A variant of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene (NOS3) associated with AMS susceptibility is less common in the quechua, a high altitude native population

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-30

  Wang, Pei ^a   Ha, Alice Y N ^a   Kidd, Kenneth K ^b   Koehle, Michael S ^a,c   Rupert, Jim L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

acute mountain sickness; altitude illness; Maya; nitric oxide; nitric oxide synthase; Quechua

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NOS3 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALLELE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXIA; LUNG EDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; ALTITUDE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MEXICO; PERU;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MEXICO; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PERU; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION GROUPS;

EID: 77954733562     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1054     Document Type: Article

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