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Amid standoff with India, China conducts genetic study of altitude adaptation in Tibetans

August 8, 2021;

India Today, published 7 August 2021 China has reportedly opened the world’s largest “plateau human genetic resources biological sample bank” in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for medical researchers to study “plateau diseases” and improve the country’s health support capabilities in the region. According to a report in the state-owned Global Times, expert teams from Xinqiao Hospital…

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