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High-altitude adaptation: Role of genetic and epigenetic factors.
Journal of biosciences - 1 Jan 2021
Basak Nipa, Thangaraj Kumarasamy
Abstract excerpt
After the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, the field of genetics has witnessed massive progress that spanned research in high-altitude biology also. Especially the decade of 2010s witnessed the most of it and revealed various genetic signatures of high-altitude adaptation in Tibetans, Andeans and Ethiopians. High-altitude area, with its extreme environment, harbors a tremendous potential for...
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