Altitude adaptation in Tibetans caused by introgression of Denisovan-like DNA

Nature

Volumn 512, Issue 7513, 2014, Pages 194-197

  Huerta Sánchez, Emilia ^a,b,c   Jin, Xin ^a,d   Asan, ^a,e,f   Bianba, Zhuoma ^g   Peter, Benjamin M ^b   Vinckenbosch, Nicolas ^b   Liang, Yu ^a,e,f   Yi, Xin ^a,e,f   He, Mingze ^a,h   Somel, Mehmet ⁱ   Ni, Peixiang ^a   Wang, Bo ^a   Ou, Xiaohua ^a   Huasang, ^a   Luosang, Jiangbai ^a   Cuo, Zha Xi Ping ^j   Li, Kui ^k   Gao, Guoyi ^l   Yin, Ye ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Zhang, Xiuqing ^a   Xu, Xun ^a   Yang, Huanming ^a,m,n   Li, Yingrui ^a   Wang, Jian ^a,n   Wang, Jun ^a,m,o,p,q   Nielsen, Rasmus ^a,b,o   more..

^a BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e Binhai Genomics Institute   (China)

^f Tianjin Translational Genomics Center   (China)

^g Lhasa People Hospital   (China)

^h IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^j Tibet Autonomous Region Second People's Hospital   (China)

^k People's Hospital of Tibet Autonomous Region   (China)

^l Hospital of XiShuangBanNa Dai Nationalities   (China)

^m KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

ⁿ James D Watson of Institute of Genome Sciences   (China)

^o UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^p MACAU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Macao)

^q UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE; DNA; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMINID; INTROGRESSION; NATURAL SELECTION; PROTEIN; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; DIRECTIONAL SELECTION; EPAS1 GENE; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAN CHINESE; HAPLOTYPE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTROGRESSION; NATURAL SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TIBETAN (PEOPLE);

AFRICA; CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; HAPLOTYPES; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TIBET;

EID: 84906242803     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13408     Document Type: Article

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