Data for rs13419896, rs4953354, and rs4953388 for Sherpas, Tibetans, and other non-Sherpa lowlander populations worldwide.

Abbreviations: CEU, Utah residents with Northern and Western European ancestry; CHB, Han Chinese in Beijing, China; J-HAPE-r, Japanese high-altitude pulmonary edema-resistant subjects; J-HAPR-s, Japanese high-altitude pulmonary edema-susceptible subjects; JPT, Japanese subjects in Tokyo, Japan; YRI, Yoruban subjects in Ibadan, Nigeria.*Genetic data from HapMap (http://hapmap.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/index.html.en).†Genetic data from reference 16.‡Genetic data from reference 15.