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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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Autores principales: Petousi, Nayia, Robbins, Peter A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Physiological Society 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3972749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24201705
http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00605.2013