Identifying signatures of natural selection in Tibetan and Andean populations using dense genome scan data

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Bigham, Abigail ^a,k   Bauchet, Marc ^b   Pinto, Dalila ^c   Mao, Xianyun ^a   Akey, Joshua M ^d   Mei, Rui ^e   Scherer, Stephen W ^c,f   Julian, Colleen G ^g   Wilson, Megan J ^g   Herráez, David López ^b   Brutsaert, Tom ^h   Parra, Esteban J ⁱ   Moore, Lorna G ^j   Shriver, Mark D ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e Thermo Fisher Scientific   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^h SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^j WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; NATURAL SELECTION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; POPULATION GENETICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GEOGRAPHY; GLOBINS; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1, ALPHA SUBUNIT; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROCOLLAGEN-PROLINE DIOXYGENASE; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOUTH AMERICA; TIBET;

EID: 78049419228     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001116     Document Type: Article

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