Human adaptation to the hypoxia of high altitude: the Tibetan paradigm from the pregenomic to the postgenomic era.
The Tibetan Plateau is one of the highest regions on Earth. Tibetan highlanders are adapted to life and reproduction in a hypoxic environment and possess a suite of distinctive physiological traits. Recent studies have identified genomic loci that have undergone natural selection in Tibetans. Two of...
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| Language: | English |
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American Physiological Society
2014
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