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Sequencing of 50 Human Exomes Reveals Adaptation to High Altitude
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No Genetic Vertigo: Peoples living in high altitudes have adapted to their situation (see the Perspective by Storz ). To identify gene regions that might have contributed to high-altitude adaptation in Tibetans, Simonson et al. (p. 72 , published online 13 May) conducted a genome scan of nucleotide polymorphism comparing Tibetans, Han Chinese, and Japanese, while Yi et al. (p. 75 ) performed comparable analyses on the coding regions of all genes—their exomes. Both studies converged on a gene, endothelial Per-Arnt-Sim domain protein 1 (also known as hypoxia-inducible factor 2 α), which has been linked to the regulation of red blood cell production. Other genes identified that were potentially under selection included adult and fetal hemoglobin and two functional candidate loci that were correlated with low hemoglobin concentration in Tibetans. Future detailed functional studies will now be required to examine the mechanistic underpinnings of physiological adaptation to high altitudes.
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“For example, by studying genes that show population-specific allele-frequency differences between Tibetans and Han Chinese, a signal of positive natural selection was detected in EPAS1, a transcription factor involved in the response to hypoxia, which most probably helps the Tibetans to live at high altitudes [40].”
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“Genome-wide searches for single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), candidate gene approaches and exome sequencing have identified genetic variations in the HIF2A, PHD2 and PPARA genes that associate with lower hemoglobins in native Tibetans compared to Han Chinese and with high altitude adaptation in other populations.”
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- Yi, X., Liang, Y., Huerta-Sanchez, E., Jin, X., Cuo, Z. X. P., Pool, J. E., Xu, X., Jiang, H., Vinckenbosch, N., Korneliussen, T. S., Zheng, H., Liu, T., He, W., Li, K., Luo, R., Nie, X., Wu, H., Zhao, M., Cao, H., Zou, J., Shan, Y., Li, S., Yang, Q., Asan, Ni, P., Tian, G., Xu, J., Liu, X., Jiang, T., Wu, R., Zhou, G., Tang, M., Qin, J., Wang, T., Feng, S., Li, G., Huasang, Luosang, J., Wang, W., Chen, F., Wang, Y., Zheng, X., Li, Z., Bianba, Z., Yang, G., Wang, X., Tang, S., Gao, G., Chen, Y., Luo, Z., Gusang, L., Cao, Z., Zhang, Q., Ouyang, W., Ren, X., Liang, H., Zheng, H., Huang, Y., Li, J., Bolund, L., Kristiansen, K., Li, Y., Zhang, Y., Zhang, X., Li, R., Li, S., Yang, H., Nielsen, R., Wang, J., & Wang, J.
- Affiliations
- BGI Group (China) (CN)
- Department of Integrative Biology and Department of Statistics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94820, USA.
- Tibet Autonomous Region People's Hospital (CN)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- The Military General Hospital of Tibet, Lhasa, 850007, China.
- The hospital of XiShuangBanNa Dai Nationalities, Autonomous Jinghong 666100, Yunnan, China.
- Corresponding author
- Yi, Xin
- Liang, Yu
- Jin, Xin
- Cuo, Zha Xi Ping
- Pool, John E.
- ORCID
- Yi, Xin
- Liang, Yu
- Jin, Xin
- Pool, John E.
- Xu, Xun
- Jiang, Hui
- Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand
- Zheng, Hancheng
- Liu, Tao
- He, Weiming
- Luo, Ruibang
- Wu, Honglong
- Cao, Hongzhi
- Zou, Jing
- Shan, Ying
- Yang, Qi
- Tian, Geng
- Xu, Junming
- Liu, Xiao
- Wu, Renhua
- Zhou, Guangyu
- Tang, Meifang
- Qin, Junjie
- Wang, Tong
- Wang, Wei
- Chen, Fang
- Li, Zhuo
- Yang, Ge
- Tang, Shuhui
- Gao, Guoyi
- Luo, Zhen
- Gusang, Lamu
- Zhang, Qinghui
- Liang, Huiqing
- Bolund, Lars
- Kristiansen, Karsten
- Li, Yingrui
- Zhang, Yong
- Zhang, Xiuqing
- Li, Ruiqiang
- Li, Songgang
- Yang, Huanming
- Nielsen, Rasmus
- Wang, Jun
- Wang, Jian
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2010-07-02
- Volume
- 329
- Issue
- 5987
- Pages
- 75-78
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- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- PMC
- PMC3711608
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- 50.78
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- Funders
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (124318)
- U.S. Public Health Service (R01-MHG084695)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R21AA022707)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH084695)
- National Human Genome Research Institute (R01HG003229)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › High Altitude and Hypoxia
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Forensic and Genetic Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Keywords
- high-altitude adaptation, Tibetan Plateau, EPAS1, natural selection, hypoxia response, allele frequency change, single nucleotide polymorphisms, Han Chinese, population genomics, exome sequencing
- MeSH terms
- Acclimatization, Endothelial PAS Domain-Containing Protein 1, Altitude, Bayes Theorem, China, Erythrocyte Count, Ethnicity, Exons, Female, Gene Frequency, Hemoglobins, Humans, Male, Oxygen, Selection, Genetic, Genome, Human, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Tibet, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Asian People, Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Proteins, Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors, Genetic Association Studies
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