Evolution for high-altitude living in present-day Tibetans

There’s an interesting glimpse into recent human evolution in the latest edition of PLoS Genetics. It comes from a team of scientists whose corresponding author is Chad Huff, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. The paper is titled “Evolutionary history of Tibetans inferred from whole-genome sequencing”. The team performed whole-genome sequencing of […]

from The Evolution and Medicine Review http://ift.tt/2oXGgyn