Whole genome sequencing of Ethiopian highlanders reveals conserved hypoxia tolerance genes

Genome Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Udpa, Nitin ^a   Ronen, Roy ^a   Zhou, Dan ^a   Liang, Junbin ^b   Stobdan, Tsering ^a   Appenzeller, Otto ^c   Yin, Ye ^d   Du, Yuanping ^d   Guo, Lixia ^b   Cao, Rui ^b   Wang, Yu ^d   Jin, Xin ^b   Huang, Chen ^d   Jia, Wenlong ^b   Cao, Dandan ^b   Guo, Guangwu ^b   Claydon, Victoria E ^e   Hainsworth, Roger ^f   Gamboa, Jorge L ^g   Zibenigus, Mehila ^h   Zenebe, Guta ^h   Xue, Jin ^a   Liu, Siqi ⁱ   Frazer, Kelly A ^a   Li, Yingrui ^d   Bafna, Vineet ^j   Haddad, Gabriel G ^a,k,l   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BGI Americas   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^e SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^g VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

ⁱ Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation   (China)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 19; CIC GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ETHIOPIA; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HSL GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; HYPOXIA; HYPOXIA TOLERANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAF AHA GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SURVIVAL RATE; ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ANOXIA; DROSOPHILA; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ETHIOPIAN; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NATURAL SELECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE;

OXYGEN;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 19; DROSOPHILA; ETHIOPIA; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; OXYGEN; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84899102898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2014-15-2-r36     Document Type: Article

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