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Genetic and immune changes in Tibetan high-altitude populations contribute to biological adaptation to hypoxia.
Environmental health and preventive medicine - 1 Jan 2022
Bai Jun, Li Lijuan, Li Yanhong, Zhang Liansheng
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BACKGROUND: Tibetans have lived at very high altitudes for thousands of years, and have a distinctive suite of physiological traits that enable them to tolerate environmental hypoxia. Expanding awareness and knowledge of the differences in hematology, hypoxia-associated genes, immune system of people living at different altitudes and from different ethnic groups may provide evidence for the prevention of mountain...
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