Widespread signals of convergent adaptation to high altitude in Asia and America

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 394-407

  Foll, Matthieu ^a,b,e   Gaggiotti, Oscar E ^c,d   Daub, Josephine T ^a,b   Vatsiou, Alexandra ^d   Excoffier, Laurent ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASIA; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DEMOGRAPHY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOMICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LOCAL ADAPTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; ALGORITHM; ANOXIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; POPULATION GENETICS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALGORITHMS; ALTITUDE; AMERICAS; ANOXIA; ASIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84921786534     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.09.002     Document Type: Article

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