About the Authors
- Jinchuan Xing
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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
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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
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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
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Affiliation Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
- David J. Witherspoon
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Affiliation Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
- Wilfred Wu
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Affiliation Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
- Ga Qin
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Affiliation Research Center for High Altitude Medicine, Qinghai University Medical School, Xining, Qinghai, People's Republic of China
- Chad D. Huff
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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
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* E-mail: 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
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* E-mail: 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.