Genetic changes in tibet

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 101-102

  Beall, Cynthia M ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 2ALPHA; OXYGEN; PROCOLLAGEN PROLINE 2 OXOGLUTARATE 4 DIOXYGENASE;

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; CHINA; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; TIBET;

EID: 79959906794     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: 15578682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2011.1007     Document Type: Editorial

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