Human genetic adaptation to high altitude

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 257-279

  Moore, L G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Andes; Birth weight; Chronic hypoxia; Chronic mountain sickness; Evolution; Fetal growth restriction; Fitness; Polycythemia; Population history; Pulmonary hypertension; Tibet

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AFRICA; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASIA; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HEREDITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; NORTH AMERICA; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; SURVIVAL; TIME;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS;

EID: 0034913630     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/152702901750265341     Document Type: Article

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