Associations of high altitude polycythemia with polymorphisms in EPHA2 and AGT in Chinese Han and Tibetan populations

• Published in: Oncotarget Vol. 8; no. 32; pp. 53234 - 53243
• Main Authors: Liu, Lijun, Zhang, Yao, Zhang, Zhiying, Zhao, Yiduo, Fan, Xiaowei, Ma, Lifeng, Zhang, Yuan, He, Haijin, Kang, Longli
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Impact Journals LLC 08.08.2017
• Subjects: Research Paper; high altitude polycythemia; case-control study; AGT; gene polymorphisms; EPHA2

High altitude polycythemia (HAPC) refers to the long-term living in the plateau of the hypoxia environment is not accustomed to cause red blood cell hyperplasia. The pathological changes are mainly the various organs and tissue congestion, blood stasis and hypoxia damage. Although chronic hypoxia is...