The Genetic Basis of Chronic Mountain Sickness
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The genetic basis of chronic mountain sickness.
Chronic mountain sickness (CMS) is a disease that affects many high-altitude dwellers, particularly in the Andean Mountains in South America. The hallmark symptom of CMS is polycythemia, which causes increased risk of pulmonary hypertension and stroke (among other symptoms). A prevailing hypothesis in high-altitude medicine is that CMS results from a population-specific "maladaptation" to the h...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1548-9213,1548-9221
DOI: 10.1152/physiol.00008.2014