Living the high life: High-altitude adaptation

Genome Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Scheinfeldt, Laura B ^a   Tishkoff, Sarah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1B ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ANGIOPOIETIN; CADHERIN; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CYTOCHROME P450 2E1; ENDOTHELIN 1; ENDOTHELIN A RECEPTOR; HEME OXYGENASE; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE KINASE; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OXYGEN; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3,4,5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROCOLLAGEN PROLINE 2 OXOGLUTARATE 4 DIOXYGENASE; TENASCIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ELF 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1;

ADRA1B GENE; ALLELE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANDEAN; BRAIN EDEMA; CDH1 GENE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EDN1 GENE; EDNRA GENE; ELF2 GENE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LUNG EDEMA; NOS2A GENE; NOTE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PERINATAL DEATH; PHD3 GENE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PIK3CA GENE; POPULATION GENETICS; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRKAA1 GENE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TIBETAN; TNC GENE; VEGF GENE; ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; SOUTH AMERICA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOUTH AMERICA; TIBET;

EID: 79952276736     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2010-11-9-133     Document Type: Note

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