Ethnically Tibetan women in Nepal with low hemoglobin concentration have better reproductive outcomes

Elevated maternal hemoglobin concentration associated strongly with lower lifetime reproductive success among ethnically Tibetan women at 3000-4100m in Nepal. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that unelevated hemoglobin concentration is an adaptation shaped by natural selection resulting in low hemoglobin levels among Tibetans compared with visitors and Andean highlanders.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Evolution, Medicine and Public Health

• Publication date

  2017-04-21

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1093/emph/eox008PMID 28567284PMCID 5442430
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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