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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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Autores principales: Cho, Jang Ik, Basnyat, Buddha, Jeong, Choongwon, Di Rienzo, Anna, Childs, Geoff, Craig, Sienna R., Sun, Jiayang, Beall, Cynthia M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5442430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28567284
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/emph/eox008