Genetic Variants in EPAS1 Contribute to Adaptation to High-Altitude Hypoxia in Sherpas

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Hanaoka, Masayuki ^a   Droma, Yunden ^a   Basnyat, Buddha ^b   Ito, Michiko ^a   Kobayashi, Nobumitsu ^a   Katsuyama, Yoshihiko ^c   Kubo, Keishi ^a   Ota, Masao ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NEPAL INTERNATIONAL CLINIC   (Nepal)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR;

ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANT GENE; EPAS1 GENE; ETHNIC GROUP; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; NEPAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SHERPA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MOUNTAINEERING; TIBET;

EID: 84870773560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050566     Document Type: Article

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