CAS-Max-Planck Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai finds genetic region involved in high-altitute adaptation of Tibetians

Jun 15, 2015

By bioinformatics-based population genetics, a 3.4-kb copy number deletion near EPAS1, a hypoxya pathway, was found to be significantly enriched in high-altitude Tibetans.

CAS news release, June 15, 2015