Metabolic insight into mechanisms of high-altitude adaptation in Tibetans

Molecular Genetics and Metabolism

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 244-247

  Ge, Ri Li ^a   Simonson, Tatum S ^b,c   Cooksey, Robert C ^b   Tanna, Uran ^a   Qin, Ga ^a   Huff, Chad D ^b   Witherspoon, David J ^b   Xing, Jinchuan ^b,d   Zhengzhong, Bai ^a   Prchal, Josef T ^b   Jorde, Lynn B ^b   McClain, Donald A ^b  

^a QINGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; High altitude; Metabolism

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; LACTIC ACID; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ANAEROBIC GLYCOLYSIS; ARTICLE; CHINA; EPAS1 GENE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLUCOSE OXIDATION; GLYCOLYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PPAR ALPHA; PROCOLLAGEN-PROLINE DIOXYGENASE; TIBET;

EID: 84860918008     PISSN: 10967192     EISSN: 10967206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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