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Association of hsp70-2 and hsp-hom gene polymorphisms with risk of acute high-altitude illness in a Chinese population.
Cell stress & chaperones - 1 Jan 2005
Zhou Fang, Wang Feng, Li Fangze, Yuan Jing, Zeng Huasong, Wei Qingyi, Tanguay Robert M, Wu Tangchun
Abstract excerpt
High-altitude illness (HAI) is a potentially fatal condition involving genetic and environmental components. Accumulated experimental evidence suggests that heat shock proteins (Hsps), especially HSP70, can protect cells and organs against different types of damage. We investigated whether genetic variation in constitutive and inducible hsp70 genes could be associated with risk of HAI. The association between...
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