Letter on ‘Downregulation of EPAS1 and EGLN1 mRNA Expression Associated With High‐Altitude Adaptive Genetic Variants in Sherpa Highlanders’
It is reported that Sherpa high-landers carry significantly lower frequencies of the wild-type alleles of two EPAS1 and EGLN1 intronic variants, and whole-blood mRNA expression of both genes is markedly reduced in Sherpas relative to non-Sherpa lowlanders, interpreted as transcriptional modulation of the HIF pathway th...