Ventilation and hypoxic ventilatory response of Tibetan and Aymara high altitude natives

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 427-447

  Beall, Cynthia M ^a   Strohl, Kingman P ^a   Blangero, John ^b   Williams Blangero, Sarah ^b   Almasy, Laura A ^b   Decker, Michael J ^a   Worthman, Carol M ^c   Goldstein, Melvyn C ^a   Vargas, Enrique ^d   Villena, Mercedes ^d   Soria, Rudy ^d   Alarcon, Ana Maria ^d   Gonzales, Cristina ^d  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Instituto Boliviano de Biologia de Altura   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Heritability; High altitude adaptation; Microevolution; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CHILD; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPIRATION CONTROL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; BOLIVIA; CHILD; CHINA; ETHNIC GROUPS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VENTILATION; TIBET; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031467716     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199712)104:4<427::AID-AJPA1>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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