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(Courtesy | Researchers, University of Utah) Tibetans living in India prepare a prayer flag during a festival. Researchers from (Courtesy | Researchers, University of Utah) Tibetans such as these are able to thrive at the high altitudes of the Tibetan Plate (Courtesy | Researchers, University of Utah) Tibetans such as these are able to thrive at the high altitudes of the Tibetan Plat (Courtesy | Researchers, University of Utah) University of Utah internist Josef Prchal, fifth from left, traveled several times t (Courtesy | University of Utah) University of Utah researchers Tsewang Tashi, left, and Felipe Lorenzo, right, visit the 33rd Ab (Courtesy | Researchers, University of Utah) Josef Prchal, the senior author on a new study published Sunday, viisited Qinghai Pr (Courtesy | Researchers, University of Utah) This landscape is in the high altitude Tibetan Plateau. A new study led by Universi Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune Donald A. McClain, endocrinologist and a professor of internal medicine, Josef Prchal, a prof (Courtesy | Researchers, University of Utah) Tibetans sometimes live in nomadic tents, shown here on the Tibetan Pleateau. A new (Courtesy | Researchers, University of Utah) Three University of Utah researchers are shown in front of a health center in a vi Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune L-R, Tsewang Tashi, a Tibetan who is a hematologist and researcher at the Huntsman Cancer Ins