Tibetan people have multiple adaptations for life at high altitudes

Thursday, April 27, 2017 - 13:42 in Biology & Nature

The Tibetan people have inherited variants of five different genes that help them live at high altitudes, with one gene originating in the extinct human subspecies, the Denisovans.

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