Ethnically Tibetan women in Nepal with low hemoglobin concentration have better reproductive outcomes

Background and objectives: Tibetans have distinctively low hemoglobin concentrations at high altitudes compared with visitors and Andean highlanders. This study hypothesized that natural selection favors an unelevated hemoglobin concentration among Tibetans. It considered nonheritable sociocultural...

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Main Authors: Cho, JI, Basnyat, B, Jeong, C, Di Rienzo, A, Childs, G, Craig, SR, Sun, J, Beall, CM
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2017