A Positive Correlation between Elevated Altitude and Frequency of Mutant Alleles at the EPAS1 and HBB Loci in Chinese Indigenous Dogs

Ruoxi Fan; Fei Liu; Hong Wu; Shifang Wu; Chunling Zhu; Yan Li; Guodong Wang; Yaping Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.jgg.2015.02.006

Volume 42 Issue 4

Apr. 2015

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A Positive Correlation between Elevated Altitude and Frequency of Mutant Alleles at the EPAS1 and HBB Loci in Chinese Indigenous Dogs

doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2015.02.006

Ruoxi Fan^{a, #},
Fei Liu^{b, #},
Hong Wu^a,
Shifang Wu^b,
Chunling Zhu^b,
Yan Li^b,
Guodong Wang^b,
Yaping Zhang^{a, b}

a
Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resources, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
b
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, and Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China

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Corresponding author: E-mail address: wanggd@mail.kiz.ac.cn (Guodong Wang); E-mail address: zhangyp@mail.kiz.ac.cn (Yaping Zhang)
Received Date: 2014-11-11
Accepted Date: 2015-02-26
Rev Recd Date: 2015-02-20

Available Online: 2015-03-06

Publish Date: 2015-04-20

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These authors contributed equally to this work.

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