About the Authors

Jinchuan Xing

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinchuan Xing, Tana Wuren, Tatum S. Simonson

Current address: Department of Genetics, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

Affiliations Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Research Center for High Altitude Medicine, Qinghai University Medical School, Xining, Qinghai, People's Republic of China

Tana Wuren

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinchuan Xing, Tana Wuren, Tatum S. Simonson

Affiliation Research Center for High Altitude Medicine, Qinghai University Medical School, Xining, Qinghai, People's Republic of China

Tatum S. Simonson

Contributed equally to this work with: Jinchuan Xing, Tana Wuren, Tatum S. Simonson

Current address: Division of Physiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Affiliation Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

W. Scott Watkins

Affiliation Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

David J. Witherspoon

Affiliation Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Wilfred Wu

Affiliation Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Ga Qin

Affiliation Research Center for High Altitude Medicine, Qinghai University Medical School, Xining, Qinghai, People's Republic of China

Chad D. Huff

Current address: Department of Epidemiology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Lynn B. Jorde

lbj@genetics.utah.edu (LBJ); geriligao@hotmail.com (RLG)

Affiliation Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Ri-Li Ge

lbj@genetics.utah.edu (LBJ); geriligao@hotmail.com (RLG)

Affiliation Research Center for High Altitude Medicine, Qinghai University Medical School, Xining, Qinghai, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JX TW TSS LBJ RLG. Performed the experiments: JX TW TSS WSW DJW WW GQ CDH. Analyzed the data: JX TW TSS WSW DJW WW CDH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RLG LBJ. Wrote the paper: JX TSS RLG LBJ.