Blackwell RW, Liu CS, Yang HJ, Wang CC, Huang JT. Hemoglobin variant common to Chinese and North American Indians: alpha-2-beta-22 Glu-Ala.
Science 1968;
161:381-2. [PMID:
5658717 DOI:
10.1126/science.161.3839.381]
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Abstract
An electrophoretically slow hemoglobin variant, in which the structural change involves the replacement of a glutamyl residue by alanyl at position beta-22, was reported in two groups of North American Indians: hemoglobin-G Coushatta, in Alabama-Coushatta Indians in Texas; and hemoglobin-G Saskatoon, in descendants of Santee Indians living in Canada. Hemoglobin-G Hsin-Chu, found in Taiwan in a Chinese from the northern Chinese province of Liaoning, is now shown to have the same structural anomaly.
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