Abnormal energy regulation in early life: childhood gene expression may predict subsequent chronic mountain sickness

Luis Huicho^1* , Guoqiang Xing^2* , Clifford Qualls³ , María Rivera-Ch⁴ , Jorge L Gamboa⁵ , Ajay Verma⁶ and Otto Appenzeller⁷

¹  Departament of Paediatrics, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, and Instituto de Salud del Niño, Lima, Peru

²  Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda MD, USA

³  University of New Mexico, Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Clinical Research Center, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque NM 887131, USA

⁴  Departament of Biological and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Philosophy, High Altitude Research Institute, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

⁵  Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

⁶  Department of Neurology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda MD, USA

⁷  Department of Neurology, New Mexico Health Enhancement and Marathon Clinics Research Foundation, Albuquerque NM, USA