Hemoglobin G Chinese in Chinese Subjects in Taiwan |
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| Authors: | R Q Blackwell M-I Weng C-S Liu T-B Shih and C-L Wang |
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| Institution: | Department of Biochemistry, U. S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China |
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| Abstract: | Abstract. Hemoglobin G Chinese, obtained from Chinese subjects in Singapore, Honolulu, and Hong Kong, was shown by Swenson, Hill, Lehmann and Jim J. biol. Chem. 237 : 1517–1520 (1962)] to be an α-chain variant in which glutamine replaces the glutamyl group normally located at position α-30. The same variant has now been found in 7 unrelated Chinese subjects on Taiwan. From the present studies, the incidence of Hemoglobin G Chinese in Chinese subjects in Taiwan is estimated to be approximately 5/100,000. |
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