EGLN1 involvement in high-altitude adaptation revealed through genetic analysis of extreme constitution types defined in Ayurveda

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 44, 2010, Pages 18961-18966

  Aggarwal, Shilpi ^a   Negi, Sapna ^a   Jha, Pankaj ^a   Singh, Prashant K ^a   Stobdan, Tsering ^b   Pasha, M A Qadar ^a   Ghosh, Saurabh ^b   Agrawal, Anurag ^a   Prasher, Bhavana ^c   Mukerji, Mitali ^a  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^c NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

High altitude pulmonary edema; Hypoxia; Indian genome variation database; Phenotype; Prakriti

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; AYURVEDA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGLN1 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIA; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 78650431047     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1006108107     Document Type: Article

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