Signatures of high altitude adaptation in Tibeto-Burman tribes of the Darjeeling Hill Region.
Saptaparni DeDivya RaiShishir TamangRinchen Doma SherpaSoni SubbaDup Tshering LepchaPeriyasamy GovindarajKumarasamy ThangarajGyaneshwer ChaubeyRakesh TamangPublished in: American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council (2023)
Thus, our study showed the persistence of high altitude signatures in Tibetans and Sherpa inhabited the DHR. Additionally, we also observed significant differences in the anthropometric and physiological parameters among the Tibeto-Burman populations of the DHR.