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AS a part of an investigation into the health of the Sherpas, undertaken during the course of the British Sola Khumba Expedition during the spring of 1959, venous blood samples were obtained from 129 inhabitants of Khumbu villages, out of an estimated population of 2,500 (von Fürer-Haimendorf, C., personal communication).
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JACKSON, F., LEHMANN, H. & SHARIH, A. Thalassæmia in a Tibetan discovered during a Hæmoglobin Survey among the Sherpas. Nature 188, 1121–1122 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/1881121a0
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