High Altitude Adaptation


	Information About the Center Contact Us Recommended Newsgroups and Links The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan (76 kb Adobe Acrobat PDF) Using and Citing Papers on this Website Melvyn Goldstein, Ph.D Cynthia Beall, Ph.D. Tsewang Namgyai Shelling Staff Publications The Tibetan Studies Internet Newsletter Ordering Tapes for "Modern Literary Tibetan" Books and Articles on Tibetan Nomads Center for Research on Tibet's Longitudinal Nomad Project in Phala, TAR Nomads of Golok, Qinghai Tibetan Nomad Bibliography Nomad Links NEW! Revolving Sheep Bank Project Tibetan History The Tibetan Social System Tibetan Marriage and Polyandry Papers on Tibetan Monks Photographs of Tibetan Dobdo and Geyog Tibet Oral History Archive Tibetan Adaptation to High Altitude (Hypoxia) Tibetan Rural Change Project Tibetan Street Songs (Under Construction)	HOME > TIBETAN ADAPTATION TO HIGH ALTITUDE (HYPOXIA) NEW! Center Co-Director, Cynthia Beall's research on Tibetan adaptation to high altitude hypoxia, was highlighted on the BBC TV science program Horizons "Are we still evolving?" Cynthia M.Beall, Kijoung Song, Robert C. Elston, and Melvyn C. Goldstein Higher offspring survival among Tibetan women with high oxygen saturation genotypes residing at 4,000 m (.pdf) PNAS published September 7, 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0405949101 ( Anthropology-Social Sciences ) Cynthia M. Beall Tibetan and Andean Patterns of Adaptation to High-Altitude Hypoxia (.pdf) [Human Biology. 72(1): 201-228, 2000.] Ventilation and Hypoxic Ventilatory Response of Tibetan and Aymara High Altitude Natives (.pdf) [American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 104: 427-447, 1997.] Oxygen Saturation Increases During Childhood (.pdf) [High Altitude Medicine & Biology. 1(1): 25-32, 2000.] Pulmonary Nitric Oxide in Mountain Dwellers (.pdf) [Nature. 414: 411-412, 2001.] Cynthia M. Beall, Melvyn C. Goldstein, & The Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences Hemoglobin Concentration of Pastoral Nomads Permanently Resident at 4,850-5,450 Meters in Tibet (.pdf) [AJPA. 73: 433-439, 1987. PMID: 3661681] Cynthia M. Beall, Laura A. Almasy, John Blangero, Sarah Williams-Blangero, Gary M. Brittenham, Kingman P. Strohl, Michael J. Decker, Enrique Vargas, Mercedes Villena, Rudy Soria, Ana Maria Alarcon, & Cristina Gonzales Percent of Oxygen Saturation of Arterial Hemoglobin Among Bolivian Aymara (.pdf) [AJPA. 108: 41-51, 1999.] Cynthia M. Beall, A. Gebremedhint, Gary M. Brittenham & M. Shamebot Blood pressure variations among Ethiopianson the Simien Plateau (.pdf) [Human Biology. 24(4): 333-342, 1997.] Cynthia M. Beall, John Blangero, Sarah Williams-Blangero, & Melvyn C. Goldstein Major Gene for Percent Oxygen Saturation of Arterial Hemoglobin in Tibetan Highlanders (.pdf) [AJPA. 95: 271-276, 1994.] Cynthia M. Beall, Jeye Henry, Carol Worthman, & Melvyn C. Goldstein Basal Metabolic Rate and Dietary Seasonality Among Tibetan Nomads [American Journal of Human Biology. 8: 361-370, 1996.] Cynthia M. Beall, Kingman P. Strohl, John Blangero, Sarah Williams-Blangero, Michael J. Decker, Gary M. Brittenham, and Melvyn C. Goldstein Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Arterial Oxygen Saturation in Tibetan Highlanders (.pdf) [Human Biology. 69(5): 597-604, 1997.] Hemoglobin Concentration of High-Altitude Tibetans and Bolivian Aymara (.pdf) [American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 106: 385-400, 1998.] Melvyn C. Goldstein Tibetan Speaking Agro-Pastoralists of Limi: A Cultural Ecology Overview of High Altitude Adaptation in the Northwest Himalaya (.pdf) [Objets Et Mondes. 14(4): 259-286, 1974.] Melvyn C. Goldstein, Paljor Tsarong, Cynthia M. Beall High Altitude Hypoxia, Culture, and Human Fecundity/Fertility: A Comparative Study (.pdf) [American Anthropologist, 85(1), 28-49, 1983.]

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