EPAS1 and EGLN1 associations with high altitude sickness in Han and Tibetan Chinese at the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Blood Cells, Molecules, and Diseases

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 67-73

  Buroker, Norman E ^a   Ning, Xue Han ^a,b   Zhou, Zhao Nian ^c   Li, Kui ^d   Cen, Wei Jun ^d   Wu, Xiu Feng ^c   Zhu, Wei Zhong ^c   Scott, C Ronald ^a   Chen, Shi Han ^a  

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

^b SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^d Lhasa People's Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness; Chronic mountain sickness; EGLN1; EPAS1

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR;

ADULT; ALLELE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EGLN1 GENE; EPAS1 GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALLELES; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CHINA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROCOLLAGEN-PROLINE DIOXYGENASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84863856215     PISSN: 10799796     EISSN: 10960961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bcmd.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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