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The distribution of three candidate cold-resistant SNPs in six minorities in North China.
BMC genomics - 12 Feb 2018
Li Qiuyan, Dong Kexian, Xu Lidan, Jia Xueyuan, Wu Jie, Sun Wenjing, Zhang Xuelong, Fu Songbin
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Heilongjiang Province located in northeast China is a multi-ethnic region with people who have lived in cold conditions for several generations. Fatty acids are important to people with cold resistance. CPT1A encodes a protein that imports long-chain fatty acids into the mitochondria for fatty-acid oxidation. FADS is an essential enzyme for the synthesis of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids....
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